Friends of Richard Lapointe
This website is dedicated to securing the freedom of Richard Lapointe, a man who was wrongfully imprisoned!
This soft little man with Dandy Walker syndrome has spent 18 years in prison for a crime he never could have even begun to commit.
Lapointe was convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of his wife's grandmother. Two years after the crime, he was questioned by police until 1:30 a.m. during which time he had signed three inconsistent confessions. His approximately 25 current supporters, the "Friends of Richard Lapointe" have worked tirelessly for his freedom. Centurion Ministries is trying to prove Lapointe is innocent.
Breaking News! March 25, 2009.
Today the tide may have turned in Richard's case after 17 years. The Connecticut Appellate Court issued an opinion in Richard's appeal saying that Judge Fuger was wrong in dismissing Richard's claims of the suppression of exculpatory evidence and Vogt's & criminal trial counsel's ineffective assistance of counsel [failure to present an arson expert & failure to employ available evidence]. The case is being sent back to the trial court for a continuation of the trial but with a finding by the Appellate Court that we have established a prima facie case that the State suppressed exculpatory evidence and that there was ineffective assistance of counsel. Click here to find a copy of the opinion which can also be found on the judiciary's website, www.jud.ct.gov , then click on courts, appellate court, and advance release of opinions.
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