MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The seven-year Mexican prison ordeal of a Frenchwoman convicted of kidnapping ended on Wednesday after the country's top court ruled her trial had been tainted and ordered her immediate release.
Florence Cassez, 38, was serving a 60-year sentence that opened up a diplomatic rift between France and Mexico after she was arrested in 2005 at a ranch near Mexico City with her former boyfriend, who led a kidnapping gang called the Zodiacs.
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