Updated at 11:59 a.m., Monday, April 9, 2007
Convicted killer pleads not guilty in second killing
Advertiser Staff
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Darnell Griffin, who is being held without bail, was given a trial date of June 12 by Circuit Judge Derrick Chan.
Griffin was convicted of murdering a 24-year-old X-ray technician whose body was found at her Makiki apartment in October 1980. He was given a life term with parole, and was paroled in 1996.
He is now charged with murder and first-degree sex assault of 20-year-old Evelyn Luka, who was found near the H-2 freeway offramp at Ka Uka Boulevard in September 1999. She was in a coma and died the following month.
Griffin was indicted by the O'ahu grand jury last week after police said DNA from his blood sample matched the DNA from evidence recovered from a sexual assault examination of Luka.
