The Court of Appeals Tuesday reversed the conviction in a 22-year-old Putnam County murder case and ordered a new trial, finding the defendant was improperly denied the opportunity to implicate a third party.

The majority of the 4-1 court ruled in People v. DiPippo, 11, that “compelling and highly probative” evidence exists implicating another man in the 1994 rape and murder of 12-year-old Josette Wright, and that Supreme Court Justice Barry Warhit erred when he refused to allow Anthony DiPippo to mount a defense based on that premise in DiPippo’s 2012 retrial.

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