QUEENS — It’s been said that the wheels of justice turn slowly. They turn more slowly for some than for others.
More than three decades after his first murder trial, Michael Robinson is still waiting for his second one.
Two and a half years after his 1993 murder conviction was overturned, Robinson and his attorneys claim that they are ready for the retrial but have been subject to countless delays from the Queens district attorney’s office and the courts.
“Mr. Robinson has been waiting over two decades to resolve this matter,” the Queens resident’s attorney, Michelle Benoit, said in court during a hearing at the end of September.
Robinson, who has maintained his innocence for years, is accused of killing his estranged wife inside a Bayside home in 1993.
After discovering new DNA evid