In her first high-profile wrongful conviction decision, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark consented to the release of a man her office said did not get a fair murder trial decades earlier.

Defendant Richard Rosario, who has spent the past 20 years in prison, walked out of Bronx Supreme Court Wednesday with his wife and children after prosecutors joined a defense motion to vacate his second-degree murder conviction.

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