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The Supreme Court has reinstated Pedro Hernandez’s 2017 murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, one of America’s most iconic missing child cases. After a federal appeals court overturned the conviction over a judge’s vague response to a jury question, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that state convictions shouldn’t be so easily tossed by federal courts — especially under a 1996 law meant to limit federal interference. With Hernandez now 64 and serving 25-to-life, prosecutors won’t need to prep for a third trial. The case, which took decades to link Hernandez to the crime, underscores how deeply this conviction — and Etan’s legacy — still reverberate across the justice system.

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