A Black man convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk in Boston in 1998 was released from prison this month after 28 years behind bars, after prosecutors told a Suffolk County Superior Court judge that he did not receive a fair trial and deserves a new one.

Rickey “Fuquan” McGee was 19 in April 1997 when he was accused of killing clerk Geta Yalew, an Ethiopian immigrant, at a store in the Fenway area by shooting him execution-style in the back of the head around 2:30 in the morning. The assailant had stolen $94 in cash, food stamps and coins from the store’s register and fled, court records show.

Beyond some bullet fragments, not much evidence was available at the crime scene — no surveillance video, fingerprints, bullet shell casings, or eyewitnesses — but police later said two d

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