WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday upheld the convictions of seven men found guilty in a 1984 murder of a woman who was found beaten and sodomized in a northeast Washington garage.

D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg said the men, who argued their innocence in court earlier this year, had failed to present any scientific or DNA evidence that could exonerate them and said he wasn’t persuaded by witnesses who had recanted their earlier testimony.