The man convicted of kidnapping and killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City in 1979 must be retried by next June or be released, a federal judge in New York ruled.

Pedro Hernandez, 64, was convicted in 2017 of kidnapping and murdering the child and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after he admitted to luring Etan into the basement of a bodega in the city's SoHo neighborhood. In July, a New York federal appeals court overturned that conviction over a flawed instruction by the New York state judge presiding over his case.