Connecticut will award $ 5.9 million to a disabled family with disabilities unjustly closed for a 1992 murder verdict.

Connecticut will pay nearly $ 5.9 million to a disabled family of a disabled family who has been wrongly closed more than two decades before being released in 2015. A 1992 condemnation He was canceled in the murder and rape of 88-year-old grandmother.

Richard Lapointe, who died at the age of 74 in 2020, had Dandy-Walker syndrome, a rare innate brain malformation that his lawyers say was a factor in his false admission. Lapointe never declared innocent, but his lawyers and the State Attorney’s Office eventually agreed with a settlement after years of legal battles.

The Office of the State Commissioner for claims on January 2. He ordered the money to be awarded to the family, although this should still be approved by the legislative body. The Office of the Landing Commissioner determines whether people can file lawsuits against the state or receive money according to the illegal state law on the closure.

Commissioner for claims by Robert Shea Jr. He said his office agrees that the reward is “reasonable and appropriate”.

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Lapointe’s lawyer, Paul Casteleiro, said that the “recognition of the state for the injustice she committed in the processing and closing of an innocent man was award. Unfortunately, Richard did not live long enough to witness his final justification.”

“The reward is by no means a suitable fee for what was done by Richard Lapointe,” Casteleiro said on Friday, adding that the state destroyed the life of his client “for the crime he did not commit.”

The Office of the Attorney General said in a statement from Friday that he “negotiating about resolving this request in the interest of all sides. This reflects the process.”

In 1987, Grandma of Lapointe’s Woman, Bernic Martin, was found stabbed, raped and strangled in his burning apartment in Manchester, Connecticut.

Lapointe he was convicted of Martin’s murder in 1992 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release. Key evidence in the case included Lapointe’s recognition during almost 10-hour testing by the Manchester police.

His lawyers claimed that his mental disadvantage was credited with giving false recognitions and that the recognition was established without the presence of his lawyers.

The State Supreme Court ruled 4-2 in the 2015 decision that Lapointey had denied fair trial because prosecutors did not disclose notes policeman who may have supported the defense of Alibi. Later that year, prosecutors said that the new DNA test did not imply Lapointey and that all the accusations were rejected.

No one else was charged with Martin’s murder.

Lapointey was soon released from custody and left the Hartford court building, carrying a black short sleeve T -shirt that said “I didn’t do it” while he triumphantly lifted his hands in the air.

“Of course I didn’t do that,” Lapinte then said. “That wasn’t me. I wouldn’t do anything like that. I wouldn’t kill my worst enemy either.”

Casteleiro said the case against Lapointey destroyed his family who avoided him.

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Before Martin’s death, Lapointe and his wife, who has cerebral palsy, “they lived together. They were fine,” Casteleiro said. But after his arrest, his husband divorced him, and he lost any contact with his son who was young at the time.

After getting out of prison, Lapointey began to suffer from dementia, he was placed in an elderly home in East Hartford and died after a fight with Covid-19, his lawyers claim.

Lapointey has supported several advocates, including groups of friends Richard Lapointey and Centurion, an organization for which Casteleiro works that helps do not convicted.

Associated Press contributed to this report.