(CN) — A Texas man asked a Fifth Circuit panel Wednesday to vacate his conviction for murdering his ex-fiancée after she accused him of sexual assault, arguing there isn’t enough evidence tying him to the crime for a rational jury to have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Robert Udashen, an attorney representing Michael Kevin Adams, told the panel the only evidence directly tying Adams to the crime scene was his touch DNA found on a condom in a wastebasket in the bathroom next to the victim’s bedroom, where she’d been found shot to death.
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