A judge has set a murder suspect free after finding that Los Angeles police coerced a confession from him.

Edward Arch, who was 19 at the time of his 2007 arrest and spent more than three years in jail awaiting trial, would probably have been sentenced to life in prison had the jury in the case convicted him.

However, before jurors were to begin deliberations, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Harvey Giss took the rare step of granting a request by Arch's attorney Wednesday to dismiss the case because of a lack of evidence.

A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office refused to comment on the case, saying a co-defendant was still to stand trial in the case. Two of the detectives who interrogated Arch, Gene Parshall and Efren Gutierrez did not respond to calls seeking comment. A third detective, John Macchiarella, declined to discuss the details of the case, saying only that he "disagreed with the judge's decision."

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