First of all Reyes admission of guilt did not count as new evidence Police had always possessed the evidence in question  Reyes semen on the Joggers sock  and had said from the beginning  that they did not have all of the attackers including the owner of the semen Second the court did not accept anything it merely acted on DA Morgenthaus request The courts do not reexamine evidence they either admit it or reject it for use in an adversarial proceeding The following passage was on   January  deleted by User in violation of Wikipedia rules which prohibit editors from deleting material from talk pages And if anything Morgenthau was guilty of obstruction of justice for hamstringing the NYPDs new investigation of the case Morgenthaus ADAs told prisoners who knew Reyes not to cooperate with NYPD investigators etc End of restored section      Note that the Bloomfield College Sockpuppetmaster User aka User User User User User User User and User vandalized the preceding passage yet again   January  as User previously on   January   as User and has repeatedly vandalized talk pages and violated the WPRR on  January  and  January  respectively without penalty Meanwhile some of us get blocked merely for disagreeing with people Having the right politics Priceless