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FILE- This Sept. 15, 2017, file photo shows Eric Kelley, right, being hugged by his lawyer Vanessa Potkin moments after Passaic County Superior Court Judge Joseph Portelli granted Kelley a retrial during a hearing in Paterson, N.J. Prosecutors have dropped a case against Kelley and Ralph Lee, who each spent 24 years behind bars for a New Jersey killing before DNA tests linked a key piece of evidence to another man. Kelley and Lee were freed after their convictions were overturned last year, but until Friday, April 6, 2018, they faced a potential retrial in the 1993 killing of Tito Merino. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)

NJ murder case dropped after 2 men spent 24 years in prison

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE-This Sept. 15, 2017, file photo shows Eric Kelley, right, being hugged by his lawyer Vanessa Potkin moments after Passaic County Superior Court Judge Joseph Portelli granted Kelley a retrial in the case in which he was found guilty of the killing of a video store employee during a robbery in 1993, during a hearing, in Paterson, N.J. Kelly and Ralph Lee, imprisoned for nearly a quarter-century in the killing of a New Jersey video store clerk, have been released on bail to await new trials. Kelley and Lee left the Passaic County Jail on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. Their convictions were overturned after new tests found someone else's DNA on a key piece of evidence. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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