The Connecticut Supreme Court has reinstated the murder conviction and 60-year prison sentence of a man who shot and killed someone outside a New Haven nightclub in 2008.

In 2014, the state Appellate Court overturned the conviction of Billy Ray Wright on grounds that the man’s lawyer should have been allowed to ask police at the trial why they didn’t interview certain potential witnesses or follow up on other leads.

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