John Mark Karr A Free Man … Judge Dismisses Child Porn Charges

File this one under … after all this you have got to be kidding me category. John Mark Karr is a free man. Where does John Mark Karr send the thank you to the Boulder DA for his free plane ride and meal home? Coming soon to a TV interview near you  …

A California judge has dismissed all charges against John Mark Karr after prosecutors stated they did not have enough evidence to take the case to trial. The supposed evidence that the DA had was compromised in that they lost the original computer and the mirror hard drive copies were questionable as well.

Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Rene Chouteau ordered Karr released immediately, bringing an end to his two-month odyssey in the U.S. criminal justice system after he was extradited from Thailand on suspicion of killing the 6-year-old beauty queen.

Karr, 41, was returned to California last month to face the five-year-old pornography case after DNA evidence cleared him of killing the girl in her Boulder, Colo., home in 1996. (ABC News)

The computer evidence was marred from the outset. Karr’s attorneys challenged the fact that the DA could not provide vital computer evidence. Another key piece of evidence showed that nothing had been accessed from the computer since 1988.

Defense attorney Robert Amparan said Wednesday that the printout made by sheriff’s deputies cataloging the contents of the hard drive on Karr’s computer showed the computer hasn’t been used in eight years.

“Nothing has been accessed on that computer since 1998, two years before the Karrs moved from Alabama to California,” Amparan said.

Divorce records indicate Karr, his former wife and their three children moved from Alabama to Petaluma in 2000.

At least one observer said if Karr obtained the images more than a year before charges were filed, a judge could dismiss the case because the deadline for bringing charges had expired. (CNN)