The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the murder conviction of Pedro Hernandez for the disappearance of Etan Patz in 1979. Hernandez, now 64, was convicted by a Manhattan jury in 2017. The appeals court ruled that jury instructions were improper and prejudiced the jury. Etan Patz vanished on May 25, 1979, while walking to his school bus stop, and his case led to significant changes regarding missing children laws in the U.S. Despite widespread media coverage, his body has never been found.
On Monday, July 21, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit allowed the murder conviction of Pedro Hernandez, 64, to be vacated, as first reported by the New York Times.
Hernandez's defense told the appeals court that instructions given to the jury during the 2017 murder trial were 'improper and prejudiced the jury,' the New York Times reported.
The disappearance of Etan Patz happened on May 25, 1979, as he made the two-block walk to his school bus stop alone for the first time.
Etan Patz's case became one of the more famous faces printed on the sides of milk cartons, an initiative to showcase missing children around the United States.
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