Mobile man decries ‘miscarriage of justice’ after murder charge finally dropped in cold case

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Five years after his indictment on a murder charge and nearly 40 years after the slaying, Anthony Lorenzo Hayes is a free man.

Mobile County prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to dismiss the charge.

Hayes, now 70, said the ordeal destroyed a life he had built near Phoenix many years after leaving Mobile…

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