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    Doesn’t Anyone Want to Know Who Killed Louise Cicelsky?

    New York prosecutors object to new DNA testing that might answer questions left unanswered at a murder trial.
    by Andrew Cohen Feb 13, 2018 6 minutes

    Renay Lynch may or may not have played a role in the 1995 murder of 82-year-old Louise Cicelsky in Amherst, New York. Certainly a jury thought she did. In 1998, Lynch was tried and convicted of felony murder. Police and prosecutors told jurors that Lynch and her friend, Kareem Walker, went to Cicelsky’s home to rob her and that Walker ended up killing the elderly victim. Although Lynch was not accused of striking a blow that day, her reported presence at the scene, in the commision of a crime, made her guilty under New York law.

    Case in Point In “Case in Point,” Andrew Cohen examines a single case or character that sheds light on the criminal justice system. An audio version of Case in Point is broadcast with The Takeaway, a public radio show from WNYC, Public Radio International, The New York Times, and WGBH-Boston Public Radio. Related Stories

    Or maybe not. Twenty years later, Lynch, through her attorneys, is asking a New York judge

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