The Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday that it would retry the man they convicted once before for the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
Pedro Hernandez, 64, was convicted in 2017 of kidnapping and murdering Etan — a crime that struck terror into the hearts of parents in New York and across the nation and stymied the police for decades.
Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after he admitted to luring the child into the basement of a bodega in the city’s SoHo neighborhood.
But in July, a New York federal appeals court overturned that conviction and ruled Hernandez must receive a new trial or be released from custody.
That decision was made over a flawed instruction by the New York state judge presiding over his case in response to a jury note about the suspect’s alleged confessions.
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