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July 6: Lapointe Habeas hearing

July 5, 2010 By Alice

Richard A. Lapointe

Tomorrow, the Richard Lapointe Habeas hearing will resume for three more days in the Rockville Superior Court. Lapointe was convicted for the 1987 murder of Mrs. Bernice Martin, his then-wife’s 88-year-old grandmother. He was sentenced to life without parole. After the Connecticut Supreme Court upheld his conviction, his lawyer filed a petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus that, if granted, […]

Filed Under: Lapointe, Miscarriages of Justice Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Arson Detection, Autopsy, DNA, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Forensics, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Richard A. Lapointe

Riley Fox: Ignored Evidence

June 17, 2010 By Alice

Riley Fox

Looking back in the Riley Fox case it is always easier to point out how many mistakes police made during that investigation. Some goof-ups need to be exposed especially since it could have prevented an even bigger one. This ignored piece of evidence in the case of Riley Fox could have spared her father a […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News, Forensics, Lapointe, Miscarriages of Justice, Solved, Unsolved Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Child Abuse, Crime Labs, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Illinois, Miscarriage of Justice, Prisons, Rape kits, Riley Fox, Unsolved Homicide

Lapointe hearing May 7, 2010

May 8, 2010 By Alice

Richard A. Lapointe

The defense lawyers trying to clear Richard Lapointe of the horrendous 1987 murder of Mrs. Bernice Martin began an attack in court last Friday on a detective who they said secured the mentally disabled man’s questionable confession after a series of suggestive and, at times, threatening interrogations. Much of the testimony Friday focused on a […]

Filed Under: Forensics, Lapointe, Miscarriages of Justice Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Crime Scene, DNA, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Richard A. Lapointe

Lapointe hearing May 6, 2010

May 7, 2010 By Alice

Richard A. Lapointe

Karen Lapointe-Martin stands by her ex-husband. She was called to testify yesterday. “Do you recall the day your grandmother died?” Casteleiro asked. “Yes, I do, it was a Sunday,” she responded. She recounted her family’s Sunday routine — go to church, visit with her 88-year-old grandmother, Bernice Martin, then go home for Sunday dinner. That […]

Filed Under: Lapointe, Miscarriages of Justice Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Arson Detection, DNA, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Richard A. Lapointe, Wiretaps

Lapointe hearing May 5, 2010

May 6, 2010 By Alice

Richard A. Lapointe

The hearing before Judge John J. Nazzaro is focusing on evidence that Lapointe’s lawyers argue was previously overlooked, including the length of time that Martin’s apartment was burning until the first firefighter came through the front door, a pair of gloves found at the crime scene that contained the DNA of someone other than Richard, […]

Filed Under: Lapointe, Miscarriages of Justice Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Arson Detection, DNA, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Richard A. Lapointe

Lapointe hearing May 4, 2010

May 4, 2010 By Alice

Richard A. Lapointe

Richard Lapointe could not have killed Bernice Martin. “None of the confessions fit the crime,” Andy Lefebvre, a retired Bloomfield police officer, told Rick Green. He has been following the case and doing his own detective work for years, after his parish priest asked him to look into it. “He should have been examined prior to […]

Filed Under: Lapointe, Miscarriages of Justice Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Arson Detection, DNA, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Richard A. Lapointe

Lapointe hearing May 3, 2010

May 4, 2010 By Alice

Richard A. Lapointe

Superior Court Judge John J. Nazzaro began hearing evidence on Monday. The first witness was Michael Ludlow, a retired Manchester police detective who led the investigation into the killing of Bernice Martin. Martin, the grandmother of Lapointe’s wife, was raped and strangled in her apartment on North Main Street in Manchester the evening of March […]

Filed Under: Lapointe, Miscarriages of Justice Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Arson Detection, Autopsy, DNA, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Forensics, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Richard A. Lapointe, Unsolved Homicide, Wrongful Convictions

Retired Cop thinks Lapointe is innocent!

May 2, 2010 By Alice

Richard A. Lapointe

Donald Connery, another long time supporter of Richard Lapointe, wrote an article for the Hartford Courant. It is worth reading especially this part: “… the forthrightness of retired Manchester police captain Joseph Brooks. His detectives lured Lapointe to headquarters on false pretenses on July 4, 1989, and got him to agree that he must be guilty. […]

Filed Under: Lapointe, Miscarriages of Justice Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Arson Detection, Autopsy, DNA, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Richard A. Lapointe, Unsolved Homicide

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On November 23, 2016, an appeal was filed with the Florida Supreme Court. On April 21, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court denied the request for touch DNA analysis.

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In March 2015, the Connecticut State Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Richard lapointe. On Oct 2, 2015, International Wrongful Conviction Day, Richard was set free. The judge ruled that he cannot be retried for the 1987 rape-murder of Mrs. Bernice Martin. Richard Lapointe died on Aug 4, 2020 of Covid19 complications.

In 1987, someone killed Bernice Martin. I hope that she will not become a forgotten file.
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