Judge orders new trial for Pedro Hernandez, man convicted of killing Etan Patz in 1979

A federal appeals court has ruled that Pedro Hernandez, convicted of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz in 1979, should either be retried or released due to flawed jury instructions regarding his confessions. The court emphasized that the trial’s reliance on these confessions, combined with Hernandez’s mental health issues, constituted a manifestly prejudicial error.