TROY — In 2011, Michael Mosley was found guilty of first-degree murder for the January 2002 killings of 18-year-old Arica Lynn Schneider and 27-year-old Samuel Holley in a Troy apartment.
Schneider and Holley had been found in their apartment with more than 30 stab wounds. After a weeks-long jury trial, Mosley was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
At the time, tests conducted on mixed-source DNA samples collected at the scene of the crime could not identify the individuals that some of the genetic material belonged to because of testing limitations. That shortfall was key in a recent decision by the state Appellate Division’s Third Department, which noted that mixed-source samples contain genetic material from multiple sources…