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The Orleans Parish district attorney's office dropped the charges against Jason Hamilton, 27, after evidence surfaced that showed he was miles away from the shooting scene -- and another man reportedly confessed to the crime.Hamilton's trial date was scheduled for Tuesday (Aug. 20) but the case was continued until Friday, when Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Frank Marrullo ordered him to be released from custody after the DA dropped the charges.
Anthony Barre, 22, was fatally shot Nov. 14, 2010, near the corner of St. Anthony and North Rocheblave streets as he left a baby shower for the son he and his girlfriend were expecting.
Hamilton was arrested a week later, after police said he threatened to kill a Delgado Community College student and boasted of killing Messy Mya. Police said that threat was caught on video.
Hamilton's defense attorney, Martin Regan, said his client is bipolar, and had not been taking his medication properly at the time he confessed to the crime. After his confession, questions regarding Hamilton's mental illness stalled the case while he spent 18 months in psychiatric care.
Once Hamilton was declared competent to stand trial, he said he had been nowhere near the crime scene in New Orleans at the time of the murder, and was instead on a college campus in Hammond.
Regan said three witnesses were able to testify that they were with Hamilton near the campus of Southeastern Louisiana University at the time of Barre's murder, and that cellphone records also showed that his client was not in New Orleans at the time.
Regan said the charges against Hamilton were dropped in part because of witness statements that backed up his client's alibi, along with evidence that surfaced recently when federal investigators revealed that another man, while being interviewed about a different crime, confessed to killing Barre. A gun was recovered during that interview, Regan said, and the ballistics of that weapon matched the one used in Barre's killing.
There was no immediate information regarding the identity of the confessed killer.
Jury selection for Hamilton's second-degree murder trial had started last September, but proceedings came to a halt after a courtroom worker said she had seen a video of Barre's shooting on YouTube. Prosecutors dropped the murder charge against Hamilton in an attempt to track down the footage.
When prosecutors dropped the murder charge, they quickly filed a bill of information accusing Hamilton of manslaughter to keep him in custody. He was subsequently re-indicted on the second-degree murder charge.
After the charges were dropped Friday, Regan said his client and his family were overjoyed. "They're thrilled -- this is a great day for the Hamilton family," said Regan, adding that his client planned to attend a big, celebratory barbeque at his family's home Friday evening.
Barre's death caused an intense reaction on social media and the Internet, where a snapshot of the 22-year-old's body surfaced shortly after the shooting.
Barre was the grandson of Stan "Pampy" Barre, a restaurateur and political operative who pleaded guilty to skimming more than $1 million from a City Hall energy contract and served a federal prison sentence.
As a street comic, "Messy Mya" lobbed mean-spirited cracks at acquaintances, shook his backside and wore his flowing hair in fluorescent colors in his popular videos.
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