By Steve Gorman

(Reuters) -New York prosecutors said on Tuesday they stood ready to retry a former Manhattan delicatessen worker whose conviction on kidnapping and murder charges in the 1979 slaying of 6-year-old Etan Patz was overturned four months ago by a federal appeals court.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has determined that “available, admissible evidence supports” the renewal of its prosecution of Pedro Hernandez on the same charges as before, the office said in a notice on Tuesday, in a case that once stoked national fears about missing and abducted children.

The decision by District Attorney Alvin Bragg, conveyed in a letter to a New York state court judge, essentially returns the case to the pretrial status that existed after Hernandez was indicted and reopens it to

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