A state judge on Friday overturned the double murder conviction of a Queens man who has been in prison for more than three decades, ruling prosecutors improperly withheld key evidence from his 1995 trial.
Judge Michelle Johnson’s order from the bench released Allen Porter, 53, on $400,000 bond while the Queens district attorney’s office decides whether to hold a new trial. Porter was arrested on April 23, 1992 in connection with the drug-related murders of Charles Bland and Sherrie Walker at the Woodside Houses.
Johnson wrote that prosecutors had suppressed key evidence in Porter’s trial, including the a witness statement identifying another suspect as the gunman, as well as the names of five witnesses that were never shared with the defense…