After serving 18 years of a life prison sentence for first-degree murder, Thomas McCandless walked out of prison a free man yesterday after a federal judge ruled that Pennsylvania was simply taking too long to give him a court-ordered retrial. In July, U.S. District Judge Herbert J. Hutton said he gave the Commonwealth a 120-day period to retry McCandless and that the window of opportunity expired on Nov. 29.
December 17, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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After serving 18 years of a life prison sentence for first-degree murder, Thomas McCandless walked out of prison a free man after a federal judge ruled that Pennsylvania was simply taking too long to give him a court-ordered retrial.
In July, U.S. District Judge Herbert J. Hutton said he gave the Commonwealth a 120-day period to retry McCandless and that the window of opportunity expired on Nov. 29.
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