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AG says state will appeal judge's order
Published Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 07:13 PM
Attorney General Jon Bruning

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ The Nebraska attorney general says the state will appeal a federal judge's order that frees a man convicted more than two decades ago in a Norfolk murder. U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon cited ``egregious prosecutorial misconduct'' among other things in his order that could see Robert Hunt walk out of prison later this year. Hunt is serving a life sentence for the 1984 murder of 27-year-old Beverly Ramspott in Norfolk. Bataillon's order gives the state 180 days to try Hunt again, or his first-degree murder conviction will be vacated. Attorney General Jon Bruning says Hunt committed a horrible crime, and the judge was wrong to throw out his conviction. Hunt appealed his conviction after Madison County Judge Richard Krepela -- the case's original prosecutor -- admitted to altering a copy of a police report given to Hunt's defense lawyers.


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