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The New Hampshire Department of Corrections has refused to identify the inmate who died as the result of the resident-on-resident assault Monday at the state prison in Berlin, but InDepthNH has learned it was James Dale.
February 14, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/02/14/corrections-officials-refuse-to-id-assaulted-inmate-who-died-indepthnh-believes-it-was-james-dale/Jim Dale has lost his latest case in U.S. District Court, but plans to further appeal his second-degree murder conviction for the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Hopkinton more than 20 years ago.
April 13, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/04/13/convicted-child-killer-dale-loses-federal-appeal-files-another-in-1st-circuit-court/CONCORD – U.S. District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe has approved a magistrate’s report and recommendations that allow a last-ditch appeal by Jim Dale to move forward, but there are still legal hurdles to overcome before the convicted child killer can hope for a new trial.
April 24, 2017 | https://indepthnh.org/2017/04/24/more-hurdles-likely-in-federal-court-for-convicted-child-killer-jim-dale/CONCORD — A federal magistrate judge has offered James Dale his only flicker of hope from the courts since he was convicted of raping and murdering a 6-year-old Hopkinton girl almost two decades ago.
April 7, 2017 | https://indepthnh.org/2017/04/07/convicted-child-killer-jim-dale-sees-new-hope-in-federal-court-report/James Dale has filed a petition in federal court seeking again to receive a new trial in the rape and murder of six-year-old Elizabeth Knapp almost two decades ago in Hopkinton.
October 27, 2016 | https://indepthnh.org/2016/10/27/james-dale-seeks-new-trial-in-hopkinton-girls-1997-rapemurder/Ten months after the murder of James Dale, the Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday that Robert Lavoie, 57, has been indicted in Dale’s death.
December 20, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/12/20/inmate-indicted-for-homicide-of-fellow-inmate-at-northern-nh-correctional-facility/The inmate who died after being assaulted by another inmate Feb. 13 was the victim of homicide, but the state isn’t releasing the name of the inmate suspected of killing James Dale.
February 20, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/02/20/ag-inmate-homicide-caused-by-blunt-impact-head-neck-injuries/