Connecticut to award nearly $6 million to family of disabled man wrongfully imprisoned for murder conviction
Connecticut is set to pay nearly $5.9 million to the family of a disabled man who was wrongly imprisoned for more than two decades before he was freed in 2015 when his 1992 conviction in the murder and rape of an 88-year-old grandmother was overturned. Richard Lapointe, who died at age 74 in 2020, had…