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Bail-reform poster boy Pedro Hernandez convicted of burglary
Pedro Hernandez, 24 -- who was famously sprung from Rikers Island by a liberal advocacy group in 2017, only to land back in handcuffs again and again -- was found...
Let's talk about the NYC poster boy for bail reform's failure
As a teen, Pedro Hernandez became a progressive cause célèbre and a poster boy for bail reform. But in the years since, he's proved himself the poster boy for reform's...
Bail-reform poster boy Pedro Hernandez says police are targeting him
A teenage poster boy for bail reform who has racked up more than 15 arrests insists he’s no hardened criminal — and blamed police for his lengthy rap sheet, claiming...
Bail-reform poster boy wanted by cops for reckless driving
A crime-prone teenager — who became a poster boy for bail reform when prosecutors dropped a 2015 robbery charge against him — was wanted by cops yet again on Monday,...
Bail-reform poster boy Pedro Hernandez skates on 2015 robbery
Prosecutors dropped a 2015 robbery charge against bail-reform poster boy Pedro Hernandez on Monday after he made good on a pledge to go to college. “Pursuant to the agreement made...
Bail reform poster boy's case to be dismissed — if he goes to college
He’s giving it the old college try. Bail reform poster boy Pedro Hernandez will walk on his 2015 armed-robbery charge — if he can get through a semester of college,...
Etan Patz’s father to killer: 'I will never forgive you'
“Now I know what the face of evil looks like.’’ Etan Patz’s emotional father uttered those words minutes after the former bodega clerk convicted of murdering his 6-year-old son was...
Pedro Hernandez gets 25 years in prison for killing Etan Patz
Etan Patz's father said he would "never forgive'' the former bodega clerk convicted of murdering his 6-year-old nearly three decades ago, as the killer was sentenced to the maximum of...
Etan Patz killer's request to have conviction tossed is denied
A Manhattan judge refused Thursday to toss Pedro Hernandez’s conviction for the 1979 murder of Etan Patz, with the boy's father saying, "We finally will have some justice for our...
Murder conviction for Pedro Hernandez should stand: prosecutors
The conviction of Pedro Hernandez for the 1979 murder of Etan Patz should stand -- even if the jury was informed that jurors from the first trial were in the...
Prior jurors influenced jury in Etan Patz case: defense attorneys
The murder conviction in a retrial over the 1979 disappearance and death of 6-year-old Etan Patz should be thrown out because the jury knew jurors from the first trial were...
Etan Patz's killer has sentencing delayed over allegations of jury contamination
A Manhattan judge on Tuesday delayed the sentencing of Etan Patz’s convicted killer so defense lawyers could file papers asking for a new trial after allegations surfaced of jury contamination....
Lawyer asks to delay sentencing of Etan Patz's convicted killer
A defense attorney for the former grocery clerk convicted of the decades-old murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz asked a Manhattan judge to delay his client’s sentencing by one week. Pedro...
Etan Patz's killer wants conviction tossed over contamination claims
A lawyer for the man convicted this month of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 is hoping to have the verdict thrown out by proving the jury was contaminated. Attorney...
Pedro Hernandez convicted of murdering Etan Patz in 1979
It took 38 years and two trials, but a Manhattan jury on Tuesday brought the mystery of little Etan Patz’s 1979 disappearance to a close — convicting a former grocery...
Jury requests to see 32-gallon trash bag linked to Etan Patz murder
The jury in the retrial of the man accused of killing Etan Patz asked to review a chilling piece of evidence Thursday — a 32-gallon trash bag similar to the...
Holdout juror in Etan Patz's murder trial shows support for defense
The lone holdout juror in the first trial of 6-year-old Etan Patz’s accused killer appeared in court Wednesday to show his support for the defense — just as the new...
Accused Etan Patz killer likely sexually assaulted him: lawyers
The accused killer of Etan Patz likely lured the 6-year-old boy into a bodega basement to sexually abuse him, prosecutors said Tuesday during closing arguments. “Maybe the defendant tried to...
Sister of accused Etan Patz killer says dad whipped them as kids
The sister of the man accused of killing Etan Patz described in court Friday how their Bible-thumping father would whip them both with belts and forbid them from having sleepovers...
Jurors from first Etan Patz trial still haunted by murder case
They just can’t let go. Jury duty is long over. Yet for many of those who served on the panel that deadlocked last year in the emotionally wrenching murder and...