Judge overturns remaining conviction against Sean Ellis
May 4, 2021
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BOSTON (AP) — A judge on Tuesday threw out the remaining gun conviction against a man who spent who spent more than 20 years in prison for the killing of a police officer before his murder conviction was overturned.
The judge's decision comes more than month after Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins asked the judge to grant a new trial for Sean Ellis so her office can drop the gun charge and put an end to the long-running legal saga, which she said was “tainted by significant and egregious police corruption and prosecutorial misconduct.”