The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that it will re-prosecute a man it previously convicted of the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
Pedro Hernandez, 64, was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Ethan in 2017 — a crime that struck terror into the hearts of parents in New York and across the country and stymied police for decades.
Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after admitting to luring the child into the basement of a bodega in the city’s SoHo neighborhood.
But in July, a federal appeals court in New York overturned that conviction and ruled that Hernandez must face a new trial or be released from custody.
The decision was made at the erroneous instruction of the New York state judge presiding over his case in response to a jury note regarding the suspect’s alleged statements.
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