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Man Jailed for 2008 Limerick Burglary
A cigarette butt with the man's DNA was found on the scene by Limerick Police, documenting the evidence necessary to bring the burglar to justice.
The following clip comes from Carl Hessler Jr. of The Pottstown Mercury:
NORRISTOWN – A judge, referring to the significance of DNA evidence that linked a Philadelphia man to a cigarette butt left behind by a Limerick burglar, sent the man to state prison.
“He doesn’t want you to hear that 190 billion to 1 that he was in the house. A jury didn’t convict him with circumstantial evidence… but with evidence his DNA was in the house,” Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill said Monday as he sentenced James Francis DePaul to 6½ to 18 years in a state correctional facility in connection with the Dec. 17, 2008, break-in at a home on Metka Road in Limerick.
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DePaul, 26, of Lawndale Avenue, was convicted by a jury in October of charges of burglary, criminal trespass and theft by unlawful taking. The jury reached the verdict after hearing testimony that DePaul’s DNA was discovered on a cigarette butt that Limerick police found at the scene of the burglary, apparently left behind by DePaul.
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