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Richard Lapointe

Wrongfully convicted Lapointe cannot be retried

October 3, 2015 By Alice

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Wrongfully convicted Lapointe cannot be retried and was set free on International Wrongful Conviction Day! From the Hartford Courant: “A judge on Friday dismissed the notorious, quarter-century-old capital murder case against Richard Lapointe, a mentally impaired dishwasher who was released from prison when the state Supreme Court said he was wrongly convicted in the brutal death […]

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Filed Under: Miscarriages of Justice, Unsolved Tagged With: Bernice Martin, Connecticut, Dandy Walker Syndrome, Richard Lapointe, Wrongful Convictions

Sum it up #37

March 6, 2012 By Alice

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A short “Sum it up” just alerting you to some interesting things I found in the mailbox: Starting this Friday, March 9, 2012 on Investigation Discovery the movie “An Appointment With Death” will show you interviews with five death row inmates in Florida and Texas awaiting their execution. It is a four-part miniseries. More information […]

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Filed Under: Forensics Tagged With: 3D Skull Reconstruction, Bernice Martin, DNA, Forensics, Richard Lapointe

Sum it up! #51

December 20, 2010 By Alice

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In this Sum it up! we follow the progress in some cold case investigations. Progress in UK cold case investigation resulted in justice when  Judge John Devaux sentenced Peter Hull to six years incarceration for the 1994 rape of an unidentified woman. “A review of the case was undertaken in 2008 and DNA put on to the national database. A […]

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Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Amanda Knox, Grim Sleeper, Hazel Ivy, Jennifer Claybrook, Judge Nazarro, Keith Cuningham, Ken Rex McElroy, Knife Attack, Lester Ray Guy, Maurice Caldwell, Meredith Kercher, Norma Richards, Peter Hull, Richard Lapointe, Sharron Prior, Sum it Up!, Wilbert Dyce

A new trial for Richard Lapointe

April 30, 2010 By Alice

Richard A. Lapointe

Rick Green had an interview today with Richard Lapointe. On Monday, a Superior Court judge in Rockville — in response to a ruling in his favor from the state Appellate Court — will take yet another look at this endlessly appealed saga of what is either a wrongful conviction or a very crafty mentally disabled […]

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

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