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.
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NEW SHOREHAM Opponents of a controversial marina expansion are furious about what they call a “secret backroom deal” that froze them out of an agreement to settle a 17-year-old case.
They point the finger at the state’s Coastal Resources Management Council and retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, who helped broker the agreement.
“This is a lawless attempt to fix litigation. There’s no other way to describe it,” said R. Daniel Prentiss, the attorney representing the town of New Shoreham and three environmental groups on Block Island. The opponents have raised more than half a million dollars since 2003 to fight the proposal by Champlin’s Marina on Great Salt Pond.