"Civil rights attorney Ronald Kuby maintained his client's murder conviction should be overturned because the Queens District Attorney's Office relied on DNA evidence that violated the Brooklyn man's constitutional rights. Kuby called it a racial dragnet after NYPD investigators relied on testing from Parabon Nanolabs, which at the time was an unlicensed vendor, according to a 65-page court filing in 2023."
"In his 20-page decision delivered on Thursday, Feb. 19, Justice Aloise wrote that he disagreed with the racial dragnet premise based on the investigation timeline. His claims are all based on his argument that the police apprehended him after conducting a racial dragnet' that was implemented after DNA phenotyping' was done by Parabon Nanolabs, Aloise wrote. According to the defendant, this phenotyping led Parabon to conclude that the perpetrator in this case was of African' descent."
Justice Michael Aloise denied a defense motion to vacate Chanel Lewis's conviction for the 2016 murder of Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano. The defense argued the conviction should be overturned because NYPD investigators relied on DNA testing from Parabon Nanolabs, an unlicensed vendor at the time, and executed a racial dragnet based on DNA phenotyping that pointed to an African descent. Justice Aloise, in a 20-page decision on Feb. 19, wrote he disagreed with the racial dragnet premise based on the investigation timeline. Lewis was convicted at retrial after a 2018 mistrial; the jury found him guilty of beating, choking, and sexually assaulting Vetrano.
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