This case has the most tortured history and case I should have both gone as I like.

A year and a half after Pierre Romain was convicted of first degree murder, his ever-changing

legal team finally won a victory.

Judge Larry Paul Fiddler, who had presided over the 2017 trial, had ordered the prosecution

and the Los Angeles Police Department to turn over samples of blood that had been collected

at the 1987 crime scene.

The District Attorney's Office had objected saying the defense had had their chance long

ago to use the blood for DNA typing and comparison to another possible suspect in the shooting.

The DA appealed the courts of order to the second District Court of Appeal, calling the

request for blood nothing more than a request for a do-over after the jury had already delivered

a verdict.

The update is that the appeal has been denied and the defense now has the right to obtain

the blood and do its testing.

The defense's hope is that the blood will be linked to a new suspect and raise the possibility

that Pierre Romain's conviction was a miscarriage of justice.

And that is where things stand today as I record this.

Judge Fiddler said a date of June 7th, 2019, for the day of reckoning.

On that day, the defense will either make it credible and successful motion for a new trial,

where Pierre Romain will stand before the judge and finally be sentenced for the murder

of Jay Clark.

This has been a case that has slowly wound through the criminal justice system for 32 years

and the end may now finally be in sight.

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