America’s longest-held wrongly jailed woman is finally free

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Missouri's top prosecutor has now lost his latest effort to challenge a judge's decision to overturn the murder conviction for a killing that her attorneys argue was committed by a discredited police officer. An appellate court sided on Tuesday with Hemme, who was freed in July while the decision to overturn her conviction was reviewed at the insistence of Attorney General Andrew Bailey. Presiding Judge Cynthia Martin wrote in the scathing 71-page ruling that some arguments raised by Bailey's office bordered “on the absurd” and gave prosecutors 10 days to refile charges, “It is time for this miscarriage of justice to end,” Hemme's attorneys said in a statement. One of the appellate court judges noted particular concern about what happened when Holman, the discredited police officer, couldn’t be ruled out as the source of a palm print detected on a TV antenna cable found next to the victim’s body.