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Cranston police captain wants his day in court on defamation suit
PROVIDENCE A Cranston police captain wants a jury to hear his allegations that he was defamed by a TV news report implicating him as a key player in the now-infamous Ticketgate scandal.
In 2014, Capt. Russell Henry sued WJAR-TV investigative reporter Jim Taricani; WJAR s news director at the time, Christopher Lanni; and Media General Operating Inc., then the owner of the station, after a news story aired naming him as one of the people who ordered a ticketing blitz following a City Council finance committee’s rejection of the police contract. Henry also named colleagues he believed to be the source of information to Taricani, then-Patrolman Peter Leclerc, Capt. Karen Guilbeault, now retired, and police retiree Ronald Jacob.
PROVIDENCE The state Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Pawtucket man’s second-degree murder conviction in the beating death of his 10-year-old daughter in July 2013.
The court rejected arguments that Superior Court Judge Netti C. Vogel was wrong to allow prosecutors to present searing video footage of the painful hours leading up to Aleida DePina’s death.
In doing so, the high court let stand Jorge DePina’s murder conviction and life sentence he is serving at the Adult Correctional Institutions.
A lawyer for DePina argued to the court in December that his conviction should be overturned because the seizure of the Samsung camera by Pawtucket detectives fell outside the scope of a court-approved warrant and should be suppressed, along with the videos.