WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts state prison superintendent will not face a contempt hearing concerning a convicted rapist who has terminal liver cancer and is seeking medical release.
The Telegram & Gazette reports that a judge ordered North Central Correctional Institution superintendent Collette Goguen to submit a medical parole plan for 55-year-old Benjamin LaGuer by Oct. 10.
State Department of Correction lawyer David Rentsch argued the medical parole plan was the petitioner’s responsibility and that Goguen had adopted LaGuer’s plan.
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A judge accepted Goguen’s action.
LaGuer was convicted in 1984 of beating, robbing and sexually assaulting his 59-year-old neighbor in Leominster. He was sentenced to life in prison.
LaGuer maintains his innocence
His appeals have been denied, as has his initial request for medical parole.
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Information from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass.), http://www.telegram.com
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