The search continued Tuesday for a convicted murderer mistakenly released from a Miami-Dade jail over the weekend as new details were being learned about his criminal past and what led to him being set free.

James Edward Daniels has been a free man since Saturday, when officials with the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department said a "procedural error" led to his release from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, also known as TGK.

The 60-year-old in March was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge following his conviction in a 2020 double murder in Miami-Dade .

According to Miami-Dade jail and court records, Daniels was transferred from another prison and booked into TGK last Wednesday to face a cocaine possession charge from four years ago. Miami-Da

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