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His second trial led to a conviction of second-degree murder, but a judge ordered a third trial because the jury received a "sanitised" criminal history of a jailhouse witness who had testified that Mr Davis had confessed to the killing. If the jury had been given the full picture, they may have reached a different conclusion, the judge ruled.