August 12, 2009 | 5:01 pm
Bruce Lisker, who had his decades-old murder conviction overturned last week, will be released from Mule Creek State Prison near Sacramento on Thursday morning, his private investigator said.
Lisker's conviction was voided last week when U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips concluded that the San Fernando Valley man was prosecuted with "false evidence" and did not receive adequate representation from his attorney.
The judge's finding mirrored those of a seven-month Times investigation published in 2005 that raised questions about the prosecution's case against Lisker and exposed the Los Angeles Police Department's investigation into the slaying of his 66-year-old mother, Dorka, as sloppy and incomplete.
Prosecutors could appeal Phillips' ruling; retry Lisker for the March 10, 1983; or drop the case altogether.
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