DNA Clears Man Serving Life For Murder
Brown always maintained his innocence and a decade after he was convicted, began trying to solve the crime himself.(AP) Fifteen years to the day after he was convicted of murder, a 46-year-old man was ordered released from state prison on Tuesday because DNA tests proved he did not commit the crime.
Cayuga County Court Judge Mark H. Fandrich vacated the murder conviction and ordered Roy Brown released on his own recognizance. A hearing on a motion to dismiss the case was scheduled for March 5.
Brown was convicted Jan. 23, 1992 of beating and strangling Sabina Kulakowski, a social worker who was bitten repeatedly by an attacker who dragged her several hundred feet from the farmhouse where she lived in the Finger Lakes town of Aurelius.
Prosecutors relied mostly on circumstantial evidence and the bite marks on the body to win the conviction. Brown had been released from county jail a week before the killing after serving eight months for threatening social workers assigned to his child custody case. He claimed he never knew Kulakowski.
Her nude body had bite marks that an expert prosecution witness linked to Brown, even though they showed indentations from six upper teeth while Brown has only four.
Brown was sentenced to from 25 years to life in state prison, where he has remained ever since. Brown always maintained his innocence and a decade after he was convicted, began trying to solve the crime himself.
Cayuga County Court Judge Mark H. Fandrich vacated the murder conviction and ordered Roy Brown released on his own recognizance. A hearing on a motion to dismiss the case was scheduled for March 5.
Brown was convicted Jan. 23, 1992 of beating and strangling Sabina Kulakowski, a social worker who was bitten repeatedly by an attacker who dragged her several hundred feet from the farmhouse where she lived in the Finger Lakes town of Aurelius.
Prosecutors relied mostly on circumstantial evidence and the bite marks on the body to win the conviction. Brown had been released from county jail a week before the killing after serving eight months for threatening social workers assigned to his child custody case. He claimed he never knew Kulakowski.
Her nude body had bite marks that an expert prosecution witness linked to Brown, even though they showed indentations from six upper teeth while Brown has only four.
Brown was sentenced to from 25 years to life in state prison, where he has remained ever since. Brown always maintained his innocence and a decade after he was convicted, began trying to solve the crime himself.
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