The supreme court, of Bronx County, new york, denies a new trial for Alan Newton, because it could not find the rape kit that had been used to falsely convict him.  Newton has spent nearly a decade in prison for a rape that he did not convict.

       Postscript: A little over a decade later the rape kit was found in the very location that it was supposed to have been in all along, and Newton was freed; having spent 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

       [restored 3/21/2023]