{"id":3324,"date":"2026-06-22T14:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:34:24","slug":"supreme-court-reinstates-murder-conviction-in-case-of-etan-patz-missing-new-york-city-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court reinstates murder conviction in case of Etan Patz, missing New York City boy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The justices, by a 6-3 vote, granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who had urged them to undo a federal appeals court decision that overturned the verdict. The three liberal justices dissented.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prosecutors had been preparing to try the man, Pedro Hernandez, for a third time. His first trial ended in a mistrial.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed Hernandez\u2019 murder and kidnapping conviction in the second trial because of how the judge had answered a question from jurors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had called the basis for overturning the conviction \u201ca slender reed\u201d that essentially ignored a five-month-long trial with 66 witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

The justices agreed, in an unsigned opinion, that federal courts should not second-guess state courts under a 1996 federal law that was intended to reduce federal court oversight of state criminal trials.<\/span><\/p>\n

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