PITTSBURGH — A western Pennsylvania man in prison for nearly 25 years in a 1977 double murder walked out of state prison Friday after a federal judge said he was wrongfully convicted because of the “outrageous misconduct” of two prosecutors who are now state judges.

David Munchinski, 59, said he wasn’t bitter, but his head was “spinning” as he tried to take in his surroundings outside the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh.

Munchinski was released more than five hours after U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Lenihan approved Munchinski’s request to be released on bail to live with his daughter near Tampa, Fla.

Munchinski was convicted in 1986 of murdering and sexually assaulting James Alford and Raymond Gierke in Bears Rock, Fayette County, a rural community full of expensive A-frame homes.

Lenihan wrote in a habeas corpus opinion last month that the “outrageous misconduct” of then-Fayette County District Attorney Gerald Solomon and his assistant, Ralph Warman, during the trial “casts a pall of doubt over every single piece of evidence presented by the prosecution in support of its case.” In essence, Lenihan found the prosecutors hid evidence that could have cast doubt on Munchinski’s guilt.

Solomon and Warman, now both Common Pleas judges in Fayette County, didn’t immediately return calls Friday.

“I would hope that they meet justice,” Munchinski said of the former prosecutors, but he focused on efforts by his daughter and attorney to free him. They were aided by the Innocence Institute of Point Park University, which took up Munchinski’s case as its first project 10 years ago.