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A man convicted for a 2015 killing in New York has been released and his indictment has been dismissed solely because he was held at the wrong prison. Terrence Lewis was serving a sentence of 22 years to life for second-degree murder in a maximum-security prison. In a February 5 decision, Judge Stephen Miller wrote that Monroe County, NY officials violated the federal "Interstate Agreement on Detainer's Law" when they sent Lewis back to a federal prison in Pennsylvania—where he was serving a sentence for a drug conviction—as he awaited trial in the New York murder case after his indictment. The agreement says a prisoner charged with an unrelated crime in another jurisdiction must be held and tried in that jurisdiction before being returned to the place of their original imprisonment, or else the case in the other jurisdiction must be dismissed. According to the county sheriff's office, Lewis was arraigned on the murder charge in January 2018 and was detained in Monroe County for five months. In May of that year, he was returned to the Pennsylvania federal prison and was brought back to Monroe County in July 2018 for the murder trial. The sheriff's office said it was a traditional practice to return prisoners to their “home” correctional facility. The charges have been dismissed with prejudice, meaning that Lewis cannot be retried in the murder case. Need for speed. A 13-year-old driver is in custody after leading officers on a high-speed chase through multiple counties. According to deputies, the encounter began [...]