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The Supreme Court Restored the Etan Patz Conviction. The Harder Question Is What Closure Means After 47 Years.
The Supreme Court restored Pedro Hernandez's conviction on June 22, 2026, in the Etan Patz case. The ruling matters not only because it ends the immediate retrial threat, but because it treats procedural finality as the law's answer in a case that still carries a deep public argument about confession evidence, time and closure.