The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reinstated Pedro Hernandez's murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, ruling 6-3 for New York prosecutors after a federal appeals court had ordered a new trial. Hernandez was convicted in 2017 of kidnapping and murdering Patz, who vanished after leaving his family's lower Manhattan apartment for a school bus stop. The unsigned opinion said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit exceeded its authority when it overturned the...

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