Nearly 50 years after the indictment was first returned in the Massachusetts Superior Court, the state’s Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a defendant convicted in 1975 of second-degree murder and armed assault.

A three-judge appeals court panel unanimously reversed an order denying a new trial and vacated the second-degree murder conviction for Ronnie M. Harris on June 29.

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