Update as of August 10, 2026
In Pennsylvania, our client Samuel Grasty and his co-defendants, Derrick Chappell and Morton Johnson, suffered a heartbreaking setback when the Pennsylvania Superior Court, in a 2–1 decision, reversed a lower court’s order granting them new trials. The lower court had found that newly discovered DNA evidence established the identity of the true killer and demonstrated the men’s innocence.
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