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March 31, 2006

Landscaper pleads innocent to Warwick murder

WARWICK -- A landscaper pleaded innocent today to murder in the November death of his boss's wife.

James S. Richardson, 38, of Cranston, was indicted March 20 for the stabbing death of Margaret R. Duffy-Stephenson in her Warwick home.

Richardson, who entered his plea this morning in Superior Court, has been held at the Adult Correctional Institutions since Dec. 8, when a genetic test on material found under Duffy-Stephenson's fingernails identified Richardson's DNA.

-- Journal staff writer Zachary Mider

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