Acknowleding that its case had been "significantly eroded," the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office yesterday moved to drop the indictment against a man who spent some 23 years in prison after his conviction for murdering a prominent rabbi.

In 1991, David Ranta was convicted for the shooting death of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger in a botched diamond heist, a crime that caught media attention for its cold-bloodedness and which incensed the local Satmar community.