How sad. I hope he has a good recovery.http://abcnews.go.com/US/david-ranta-heart-attack-leaving-prison-exonerated/story?id=18797619
By GILLIAN MOHNEY
March 23, 2013
David Ranta has suffered a massive heart attack just two days after being exonerated of murder and leaving prison for the first time in 23 years, his attorney told ABCNews.com.
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Ranta was freed from prison Thursday after serving 23 years of a 37.5 year sentence for the murder of Brooklyn rabbi Chaskel Werzberger in 1990.
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Over the last two decades the case against Ranta began to crumble. In 2011 an eyewitness, who was a child at the time of the murder, came forward to say he had been coached to pick Ranta out of a line up. A subsequent investigation by the Conviction Integrity Unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney's office determined Ranta's case had been mishandled by police.
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Prosecutors say they now suspect the murderer is man who died two months after Werzberger was killed. They did not name him.
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