Prosecutors in Reno are ready to announce whether they'll go forward with the retrial of a woman who was ordered set free in September after spending more than 30 years in Nevada prisons for a murder she may not have committed.
Washoe District Judge Patrick Flanagan threw out Cathy Woods' conviction in September based on new DNA evidence. He ordered her to appear at a retrial July 13 for the 1976 killing of Michelle Mitchell, but it's not clear now if that will happen.
District Attorney Chris Hicks scheduled a news conference Friday to announce his plans.
Woods' lawyer and the FBI say DNA found on a cigarette butt suggests the real killer is a man recently charged with multiple murders that occurred near San Francisco shortly before Mitchell's death.
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