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Prosecutors Ask Supreme Court to Restore Conviction in Patz Missing Child Case
Manhattan prosecutors argue a federal appeals court wrongly overturned Hernandez's conviction and seek Supreme Court reversal to avoid a retrial and possible release.
- On Thursday, New York City prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Pedro Hernandez's 2017 conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6‑year‑old Etan Patz, seeking to reverse a summer appeals‑court ruling.
- Hernandez has been tried twice, including a 2017 retrial after a 2015 jury deadlock, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and top deputies argue the appeals court wrongly invalidated the verdict.
- Court records show Pedro Hernandez admitted to the crime during police questioning and repeated his taped confession at least twice after about seven hours before reading his rights.
- Prosecutors and Hernandez's attorneys are due in court Friday to discuss retrial scheduling, with a different presiding judge and a June 1 deadline to start jury selection or release Hernandez.
- The case's long arc, including Hernandez's sentence, frames the high‑court fight as Etan Patz vanished on May 25, 1979, sparking milk‑carton campaigns and National Missing Children's Day, with Hernandez, age 64, serving 25 years to life.
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