Prosecutors may have new evidence in Porco case

There's another twist two weeks before the scheduled start of the Christopher Porco murder trial.

The Times Union is reporting there may be DNA evidence in the case.

The paper reports DNA matching Christopher's was found on a toll card confiscated the night of the murder.

Christopher has maintained his innocence and said he was at school in Rochester at the time of the crime. But prosecutors are hoping to show the ticket proves he was in the Albany-area the time the murder took place.

Defense Attorney Terence Kindlon said this is another example of prosecutors grasping at straws.

He said, "We have maybe 30 boxes full of papers that have been gathered over the last 20 months, and if you go through each and every one of the papers, there is no smoking gun. So suddenly now when this case is 20 months old, when we are 13 days before jury selection, there is suddenly a claim that DNA evidence exists."

There is no word on whether this new evidence will postpone the upcoming trial date of June 15 at Albany County Court.

Christopher is accused of murdering his father and almost killing his mother with an ax in their Delmar home back in 2004.