A Collin County court has dismissed the capital murder case that put Michael Blair on death row for the 1993 killing of Ashley Estell.

The ruling marks an end to more than a decade of legal appeals, but it does not end the search to find out who lured the 7-year-old girl from a Plano park and strangled her.

The Collin County District Attorney's Office and the Plano Police Department are reinvestigating the 15-year-old case that prompted a series of legal reforms known as Ashley's Laws.

In an Aug. 25 motion to dismiss, the district attorney noted the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had overturned Mr. Blair's 1994 conviction because new DNA testing had undermined certain evidence presented in the trial.

"It has been determined that this case should be dismissed in the interest of justice so that the offense charged in the indictment can be further investigated," according to the motion that was granted by state District Judge Greg Brewer.

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