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Chafee, R.I. inmate ask appeals court to delay order

By Laura Crimaldi

 |  Associated Press  

  May 12, 2012

Governor Lincoln Chafee and defense attorneys on Friday asked an appeals court in Boston to delay issuing an order in a tug-of-war over a Rhode Island inmate facing a possible death-penalty prosecution so that the US Supreme Court may decide whether to review the case. The request filed with the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals says there is at least a “fair prospect’’ the Supreme Court would side with Chafee and 34-year-old Jason Pleau.

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