Prosecutors won’t retry man who had murder conviction overturned after 27 years in prison

The man was sentenced to life in prison in 1998 after he was found guilty of murdering a convenience store clerk.

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Ricky McGee, who was convicted in 1998 for a Boston murder and sentenced to life in prison, is now a free man after prosecutors determined that he did not receive a fair trial.

Prosecutors filed a motion Nov. 3 in Suffolk Superior Court to drop the charges against McGee after finding a lack of concrete evidence and considering new evidence that weakened the testimony of the prosecution’s main witness, according to court filings…

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