Richard Lapointe Release Possible By Week's End

Richard Lapointe, a mentally impaired dishwasher incarcerated for 26 years based on a suspect murder confession, appeared closer than ever to leaving prison Tuesday after state prosecutors agreed not to oppose his release. Events suggesting that release could be imminent - something once unthinkable - were set in motion last week when the state Supreme Court excoriated the means by which his confession was extracted and ordered that he be released or given a new trial.



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