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On December 11, 2023, Justice Boller issued a Decision and Order vacating her conviction.
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In November 2023, her attorneys filed a motion to vacate her conviction on the basis that she did not receive a fair trial because police failed to provide our office and the defense with fingerprint evidence collected from the scene.
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In 2020, our office’s Conviction Integrity Unit began a collaborative re-investigation of the case with Lynch’s attorneys. Further testing found no DNA evidence to link Lynch or the individual she claimed committed the murder to the crime. Our office opposed the motion on the basis that according to Lynch’s confession she was not in the area of the victim’s home where the homicide occurred and therefore it was unlikely that her DNA would be found on that evidence. Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security, claimed in a New York Times op-ed Sunday that the Justice Departments motion to dismiss the case against Michael Flynn 'twisted' her words to suggest that the FBIs 2017 interview of Flynn was illegitimate. In 2018, Lynch’s attorneys filed a motion requesting that the Court order additional DNA testing of the crime scene evidence. Lynch was released from prison in January 2022. After nearly 24 years of incarceration, our office issued a letter in support of her release under parole supervision. She was sentenced as a second felony offender to 25 years to life in prison. In February 1998, a jury found Lynch guilty of one count of Murder in the Second Degree (Class “A-I” felony) and one count of Robbery in the First Degree (Class “B” violent felony), convicting her of all counts in the indictment. This individual is currently serving a life sentence for an unrelated crime in the State of Florida. The other person’s alleged participation was not corroborated and therefore he was never charged in connection with this crime. Lynch was subsequently arrested and charged. During the investigation, Lynch confessed to Amherst Police detectives that she went to the victim’s home with another person with the intent to commit a robbery and that the other individual committed the homicide during the course of the robbery. Cicelsky had been beaten and stabbed multiple times. Renay Lynch was prosecuted as an accomplice to the robbery and murder of her elderly landlord, 82-year-old Louise Cicelsky, who was found dead inside of her Eggertsville apartment in May 1995. Flynn announced that his office filed a motion to dismiss the indictment in the interest of justice against 67-year-old Renay Lynch of Buffalo. (WNY News Now) – Buffalo, NY – Erie County District Attorney John J.