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A candlelight vigil and rally for Hopkinton teenager Mikayla Miller is scheduled for Thursday. (Shutterstock)
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Good morning, Boston. Today is Wednesday, May 5. We re talking the return of the feet, a community in mourning and another step toward freedom.
But first.
Rumors and accusations that were percolating on social media have erupted into full-fledged outrage. The district attorney held a news conference insisting there s been no cover-up.
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The developments surrounding the death of Hopkinton teenager Mikayla Miller have been hard to keep pace with, overflowing with emotion and striking at the very bone of some of the national conversations about how Black people are treated not just in life, but in death.
Sean Ellis is no longer a convicted felon.
Ellis spent more than 20 years in prison for the 1993 killing of Boston police detective John Mulligan. That conviction was overturned in 2015 after the detectives who investigated the crime were accused of their own illegal activities. Prosecutors declined to try Ellis a fourth time.
Despite this reversal, Ellis still had a single gun possession conviction. A Suffolk Superior Court judge on Tuesday declared justice was not done in that case, either, and ordered a new trial.
Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins had taken the unusual step of endorsing Ellis motion for a new trial so her office could drop the gun charge, filing what s called a nolle prosequi. In a court filing, Rollins said the case was “tainted by significant and egregious police corruption and prosecutorial misconduct.”
Officials claim Aggregate Industries - Northeast Region Inc. produced emissions and noxious odors that caused a public nuisance near its Chelmsford plant.