The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office is dropping its case against a man who was imprisoned for more than 30 years before DNA evidence freed him in 2020.
Thomas Rosa, a Chelsea resident, was convicted of murder in 1993. A judge overturned that conviction in 2020 when new DNA technology contradicted the forensic evidence used in Rosa’s trial.
On Wednesday, the Suffolk County DA filed a “nolle prosequi,” officially exonerating Rosa and ending its prosecution, according to a statement from the New England Innocence Project…