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Los Angeles Judge throws out conviction of Jeronimo Pratt 27 years after his jailing.

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Amy is joined by Julian Drous, an attorney for Pratt. Judge Everett Dickey has found that the prosecutions key witness in 1972, Julius Butler, was a convicted criminal and was working as an informant for the police. There will have to be a retrial or the case will be thrown away and Pratt will go free.

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- Julian Drous–attorney for Jeronimo Pratt

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