Edward Wright walked out of prison last month after spending more than four decades behind bars for the 1984 murder of a woman in Springfield that he has maintained he did not commit, and now prosecutors say they will not retry his case.

Wright was arrested in 1984 when he was 22 and convicted in 1985 for the murder of his friend, Penny Anderson, in her Springfield apartment, but Hampden County Superior Court Judge Jeremy Bucci vacated the conviction in April, citing exculpatory evidence that had been withheld by prosecutors and “blatantly false testimony” given by a Springfield detective during the trial.

Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni’s office said prosecutors intended to try Wright again, but after extensive investigation and interviews with surviving witnesses, a retr

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