District attorney plans to appeal decision to overturn murder convictions of ‘Chester Trio’

A Pennsylvania district attorney intends to appeal a judge’s decision last month to overturn the murder convictions of the so-called “Chester Trio” – three men who have spent nearly 25 years in prison for a crime they say they did not commit.

Derrick Chappell, 41; Morton Johnson, 44; and Samuel Grasty, 47, were each convicted in separate trials in 2000 and 2001 of second-degree murder and other charges and sentenced to life in prison for the 1997 killing of Henrietta Nickens, 70, in Chester, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.

“There could be nothing further than justice than the decision to appeal the judge’s order,” said Vanessa Potkin of the Innocence Project, who represents Johnson. “The DA’s decision is perpetrating a two decade long injustice and demonstrates profound confusion about both the science of DNA and the law.” That sentiment was echoed by Nilam Sanghvi of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, which represents Chappell, saying the appeal would “prolong the unjust incarceration of our clients.

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