In spite of having DNA evidence that linked two men to a 1993 gunpoint rape, the Bronx DA's office had to drop the charges partly because of a police backlog and partly because, as the Daily News reports, "Prosecutors then dragged their feet in the case despite having enough evidence against the cousins, failing to file charges until the day after statute of limitation expired, admitted Steven Reed, a Bronx district attorney’s spokesman." So now one of the suspects is laughing about it.
Brian Brockington told the News from an interview at Rikers, "It’s a joke. If they had my DNA, how come I’m only in here on assault?" Brockington, whose DNA matched two other attacks, also spoke to the Post:
“I don’t even remember 1993,” told the Post during an exclusive interview Friday. “I don't need to rape nobody. I'll buy the [sex].”
The vile Bronx man said he was “happy” and anticipating his release from jail after prosecutors missed a filing deadline by one day -- and accusations against him in three attacks, in 1993, 1997 and 2003, fell apart.
“They had me locked up for five years,” he said. “What took them so long?”
Prosecutors first charged Brockington in the sex assaults in 2007, when he was taken into custody on an unrelated charge and prosecutors said his DNA matched the cold cases.
"I'm sitting in here and they say you did this one and you did that one,” he insisted. “They're lying. They don't have any DNA on me.”
The Bronx DA's office also said that in the two other attacks, "evidentiary issues" (like uncooperative witnesses) prevented them from pursuing the cases.
Brockington also said of one of his accusers, "How can you rape someone you've had sex with 40 times. Crackhead."
