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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's highest court ordered the release of nine more people convicted in a 1997 massacre of Indians, ruling Wednesday their convictions were based on illegally obtained evidence. New trials were ordered for 16 others.
It was the second time this year the Supreme Court overturned the sentences of people convicted for the slaying of 45 people at Acteal, a village in southern Chiapas state. The court released 20 people in August and ordered new trials for six.
The court cited irregularities including failure to provide interpreters for suspects who speak the Tzotzil language. Prosecutors also apparently took pictures of the suspects and showed them to witnesses, who later identified the men as perpetrators.
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