I just started crying,” Rosa said of learning the charges would be dropped. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday it would not retry Rosa, 64, for the 1985 killing of an 18-year-old nurse’s aide, Gwendolyn Taylor, in Dorchester. Despite that ruling, prosecutors had planned to retry Rosa, with a new trial scheduled for May. In a court filing this week, however, the district attorney’s office said it was uncertain it could prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt, leading to the decision to drop the case. “Even though the district attorney’s office does not want to admit that they prosecuted an innocent man … those are things that happened,” Natarajan said.

Source: CNN March 21, 2026 02:25 UTC