Judge: No Bail for 2 Possibly Innocent of '95 Killing
A New York judge has rejected a plan to immediately free
two people serving time for a murder that some investigators now believe they
didn't commit.
Eric Glisson and Cathy Watkins are among five people
whose convictions in the 1995 killing a Bronx livery cab driver are now being
re-examined due to new evidence linking the murder to two gang members.
The Bronx District Attorney had agreed on a plan to
release Glisson and Wakins to house arrest, but the New York Post reports that
Bronx Judge Efrain Alvarado rejected that option Friday.
The judge says he has no power to grant bail to someone
serving a sentence that hasn't been overturned.
Lawyers for Glisson and Watkins say they are
disappointed, but think their clients will eventually be freed.
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