Man Exonerated After 34 Years in Prison
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Thomas Rosa Junior, a 64-year-old man from Chelsea, has been exonerated after spending 34 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. The Suffolk County District Attorneys office dropped the charges due to new forensic tests, lost evidence, and shifts in case law. Rosa was convicted in 1993 for the kidnapping and killing of an 18-year-old nurses aide in 1985, but new DNA evidence led to his release in 2020. After a judge threw out the conviction and ordered a new trial, the DAs office decided not to pursue further legal action, citing unreliable eyewitness accounts and lack of evidence connecting Rosa to the crime. This makes Rosa the 100th person exonerated in Massachusetts since 1989.
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