Three former Philadelphia homicide detectives were acquitted Thursday of lying under oath about a murder investigation that put an innocent man in prison for decades, but two of them were convicted of making false statements about DNA evidence in the case.

A verdict has been reached in a perjury case for three long-retired Philadelphia detectives, who are accused of lying under oath at the 2016 retrial of a man who spent two decades in prison for murder.

A jury has reached a mixed verdict in the trial of three long-retired Philadelphia detectives who were accused of lying about evidence in a 1991 homicide case that later ended with an exoneration