Cheri Hayden stood up from her wheelchair as she left the Jefferson Parish jail about noon on Tuesday, hugging her two children before she headed home to Marrero after 17 years in prison for a killing that an appeals court says she didn’t do.

With crowdsourcing help, the 62-year-old Hayden made a $250,000 bond set last week by 24th Judicial District Judge Stephen Enright after the Louisiana Supreme Court agreed last month that she deserves a new trial.

The court upheld an appeals court panel that found Hayden “factually innocent” in the 2008 death of a grandmother during a botched purse-snatching in the parking lot of Laborie’s Grocery Store in Marrero.

Patricia Landry was a 63-year-old civilian employee of the Air Force Reserve’s 926th Fighter Wing stationed in Belle Chasse when she wa

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