A Queens landlord is a free man after being acquitted of murder yesterday — but his freedom train is making stops at both Rikers Island and an upstate prison.

Jailed four years, three months and one week since his 2007 arrest, Michael McLennon, 41, was more than eligible to be sprung immediately on the weapons-possession charge on which he did get convicted.

But correctional red tape required that he spend last night in Rikers, and then be bused to Downstate Correctional prison in Fishkill today so his release can be processed, said his lawyer, Tamara Harris.

McLennon was cleared after he convinced a Queens Supreme Court jury that he’d opened fire on a former tenant, Winston Dixon, only after the tenant came at him with a machete in the Jamaica home where they both lived.