Timothy Brown, 27, attended church services at Koinonia Worship Center on Sunday. Brown was freed last week on $5,000 bond, nearly two months after a judge overturned his conviction and determined a jury would not have returned a guilty verdict based on evidence available today.

"He met all of the deacons and had a wonderful time," said his stepmother, Othalean Brown. "He thought it was great to be able to get out of the house."

Deputy Patrick Behan was fatally shot in 1990 while sitting in his patrol car outside a Pembroke Park convenience store, writing a report. Brown was 14 at the time of the murder; he was 15 by the time he was arrested along with a friend, months after the shooting. He said he falsely confessed under physical and psychological pressure from detectives.

Brown went to the church service with an electronic monitoring device on his ankle, a condition of his house arrest. He will remain on house arrest until prosecutors choose whether they will retry him on the murder charge, a decision that is due next month.

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Information from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, http://www.sun-sentinel.com

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