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BOSTON (AP) - A convicted rapist whose support from Gov. Deval Patrick became an election flash point last fall lost his eighth bid for a new trial Friday.
The state Supreme Judicial Court rejected Benjamin LaGuer's claim that a state police fingerprint report that was not disclosed to the defense could have helped prove his innocence. The court said the fingerprint evidence would have had no bearing on the outcome.
LaGuer was sentenced to life in prison in 1984 after being convicted in the aggravated rape of a 59-year-old neighbor. She identified him at the trial, and DNA tests in 2002 linked him to the crime scene.
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