A federal court of appeals yesterday denied a criminal defendant’s Motion To Compel Post-Conviction Relief in the form of DNA testing of six items related to the crimes at issue. The ...
Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, MINER*fn1 and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges. Affirmed. Defendant-appellant Thomas Pitera appeals from an Order entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern ...
A federal appellate court has chopped down a motion by a Mafia hitman known as Tommy Karate to compel DNA testing in connection to three cold-blooded killings. Thomas Pitera claimed DNA testing would ...
An imprisoned mob killer’s bid for DNA testing of guns and other evidence was shot down today by a Manhattan appeals court. Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera claimed in court papers that the proposed tests ...