Clemency bid denied for John Brookins, Bristol Township man who claims wrongful conviction
Four days before Christmas in 1990 Sheila Ginsberg was found beaten, strangled and stabbed numerous times with a pair of scissors the killer left embedded in her chest. At the time, DNA testing was a new and sometimes unreliable tool that was rarely used in criminal investigations. Thirty-years later, law enforcement routinely relies on the advanced technology to solve new and old crimes. Defense attorneys seek it out when wrongful conviction is alleged. And the man convicted of killing Ginsburg in her Bristol Township apartment says it could finally prove his innocence and set him free....
Source: buckscountycouriertimes.com