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November 8, 2007

AG's office releases more Station fire evidence

The state Attorney General's Office has released more evidence from the investigation into The Station nightclub fire.

The information has been posted on the attorney general's Web site.

It's the final release of evidence in the case.

Today's released comprises 31.4 gigabytes, which is the evquivalent of 45 compact discs. It includes 21,238 documents, 2,990 photos and more than 40 hours of audio and video recordings.

In total, the attorney general's office has now released of 34,367 documents, 2,993 photos and more than 100 hours of audio and video recordings.

All of it together would fill 242 CDs.

The documents include search warrant and seizure reports, expert reports and video, documents from Daniel Biechele’s suitcase, witness statements including interviews with OSHA and police, West Warwick town records, interstate subpoenas and photographs taken at The Station nightclub before and after the fire

This release of information was in response to a request filed by The Journal. It also works toward fulfilling a pledge to release evidence that Attorney General Patrick Lynch made in a letter to relatives of the 100 people who died in the February 2003 fire.

The Journal filed a request last October for the information to be released. Under state law, that set a deadline for release of November, last year. Lynch has said, however, that the amount of material required meticulous review by lawyers to ensure confidential items were not released.

View pictures, video, and documents released thus far in the Station fire case on projo.com

-- With reports from Journal staff write Paul Edward Parker.

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