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Article: NEW HAMPSHIRE KAPLAN LAWYER URGES SENTENCE BE REDUCED ATTORNEY STRESSES HELP FOR ABUSED WOMEN
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 8, 1988
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NEWPORT, N.H. - A defense lawyer for Kathleen Kaplan urged a
Superior Court judge yesterday to reduce Kaplan's prison term,
saying the court could send a message that domestic violence "is a
problem that is epidemic in New Hampshire and across the country
and has to stop before people get killed."
Kaplan, 31, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison after
she admitted she hired a man to kill her husband, who she said
abused her and threatened their child. The attorney general's
office and Kaplan's lawyers want Judge Joseph A. DiClerico Jr. to
accept an agreement that would cut 16 years from Kaplan's sentence
and allow her to be free on probation by 1990. If the court
approves the ...