A Manhattan federal judge has denied a 98-year-old woman’s petition to void what she insists was an unjust 1950 conviction for obstructing a government investigation of Soviet atomic spying.

Attorneys for Miriam Moskowitz, a former New Jersey schoolteacher, in August filed a writ of error coram nobis, a rarely-granted remedy of last resort for petitioners who can no longer pursue relief through a habeas petition.

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