Supreme Court Asked to Restore Conviction in Etan Patz’s Killing

New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg urged the US Supreme Court to undo a Second Circuit ruling that overturned the conviction of the man found guilty of kidnapping and murdering six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979.

“Its ruling was not based on any error in the decades-long investigation, in the admission of Hernandez’s confessions, or in the evidence presented at trial,” Bragg said in a petition for a writ of certiorari Thursday. “Instead, the Second Circuit undid the conviction based on the purported inadequacy of the state trial court’s response to a single jury note.”

Bragg contends the US Court of ...