The attorneys for three Delaware County men jailed for a decades-old murder will ask a judge for a new trial in hopes to prove their clients' innocence.
Derrick Chappell, 41, Morton Johnson, 42, and Samuel Grasty, 46, were teenagers in 1997 when they were convicted of the October beating death of 70-year-old Henrietta Nickens inside her Chester apartment.
A quarter-century later, their attorneys - with help for the past eight years from the Innocence Project - believe modern DNA testing shows their clients were not the killers. Vanessa Potkin, the Director of Special Litigation with the Innocence Project, said "there is no question in my mind that these three men are innocent and spent decades in prison for a crime somebody else committed.
Investigators found DNA at the bloody crime scene nearly three decades ago, but none of it matched up to the three defendants. Attorney David Haase from Shook, Hardy and Bacon called the crime scene "brutal," and reiterated that none of the blood, hair, fingerprints or semen samples tied the men to the murder.
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