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Sharrod Moore Murder Charge Dropped

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Sharrod Moore won a victory Monday that could matter in a few months.

District Attorney Robert S. Smith was absent again when Hinds County Circuit Judge Swan Yerger dropped murder charges against Sharrod Moore in the 1995 killing of Jackson Police Officer Robert J. Washington. Yerger dropped the charges because prosecutors, after indicting Moore twice, could only produce one witness, Harold Hackett, who said that Moore told him he killed Washington.

Public defender Matt Eichelberger live-blogged the hearing for attorney Jim Craig's blog today.

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