Court rejects prosecutors’ request to reargue murder case

Rachael Perry

By: The Associated Press

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The state Supreme Court has rejected a request by prosecutors to revisit its decision to grant a new trial to a man convicted of beating a Woonsocket woman to death in 1982.        

The court on Thursday denied a bid by prosecutors to re-argue why Raymond Tempest should not get a new trial. A majority of the court said prosecutors raised no new legal issues.        

Justices in July upheld a lower court ruling that overturned Tempest’s conviction.        

Tempest has been under home confinement since 2015. He has maintained his innocence. He was convicted in 1992 of second-degree murder in Doreen Picard’s death and sentenced to 85 years in prison.      

A lower court ruled Tempest deserved a new trial because prosecutors withheld some evidence that could have been used to impeach witnesses.

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