New York man freed two decades later in rabbi death after judge overturns conviction
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Posted: 03/21/2013
NEW YORK - A New York man has been freed after serving more than two decades in prison for the killing of a rabbi during a botched diamond heist, with a judge calling his conviction a miscarriage of justice.
Brooklyn prosecutors recommended that David Ranta's conviction be tossed out after a onetime witness said he had been coached into identifying the suspect in a police lineup. Ranta was released after a hearing Thursday afternoon.
He had been convicted of shooting Chaskel Werzberger during the attempted robbery of a diamond courier in Brooklyn in 1991. He was sentenced to 37 1/2 years to life in prison on second-degree murder and other charges
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