Daniel Rochat, 46, of Wood-Ridge, was convicted of murder, arson and other charges in the death of East Rutherford real estate agent Barbara Vernieri, 70, in 2012.
Daniel Rochat in a prison photo before he was transferred to the Bergen County Jail to await a new trial.A Bergen County man sentenced to life after being convicted of killing a woman by beating her unconscious and setting her on fire in her home a decade ago will get a new trial after an appeals court ruled the DNA evidence found under her fingernails was not reliable.who was killed in September 2012.decided to rob her to pay off an $11,000 debt to a girlfriend.
Rochat told detectives he was home sleeping around the time of the killing, but an investigation showed his cellphone pinged in an area behind where the victim lived, according to court testimony. Both the type of DNA, known as “low copy number,” and the software program “are not generally accepted in the scientific community,” Rochat’s attorney, David A. Ruhnke, argued on appeal.
“The trial judge erred by instructing the jury, over objection, that reaction to his arrest was potentially relevant to his consciousness of guilt,” according to the appeals court ruling.
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