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Esteban Carpio is on trial for murder in the fatal shooting of Providence police Detective Sgt. James L. Allen at police headquarters in April 2005. Carpio's lawyers are contending he should be found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Carpio gets life in jail
PROVIDENCE -- Unmoved by an expression of sorrow by a crying Esteban Carpio, Superior Court Judge Robert D. Krause yesterday sentenced Carpio to life imprisonment without parole for the first-degree murder of Providence police Detective Sgt. James L. Allen.

Carpio disciplined for possessing razor blade in cell
Esteban Carpio, who's awaiting sentencing on a first-degree murder conviction for killing a Providence police detective last year, was disciplined last week after prison officials found a razor blade in his cell.

Allen's widow expresses thanks
PROVIDENCE -- "I miss Jimmy every day. His face, his laugh, his love."

Carpio found guilty
PROVIDENCE -- A Superior Court jury yesterday convicted Esteban Carpio of the murder of Providence police Detective Sgt. James L. Allen and the stabbing of an elderly woman, concluding that he was not insane at the time.

Carpio guilty of killing Providence detective
Updated 3:48 p.m.
PROVIDENCE -- Esteban Carpio was convicted today of murdering a veteran Providence police detective with his own gun at police headquarters last year in a bold crime that shook the city's Police Department to its core.

Carpio case goes to jury
PROVIDENCE -- At the beginning of Esteban Carpio's murder trial in Superior Court, lead defense lawyer Robert L. Sheketoff posed a question to the jury about his client.

Carpio's state of mind at issue
PROVIDENCE -- Psychiatrists sparred over the state of Esteban Carpio's mind yesterday, the last day of testimony in the murder trial that began two weeks ago.

Carpio's state of mind at issue
PROVIDENCE -- Psychiatrists sparred over the state of Esteban Carpio's mind yesterday, the last day of testimony in the murder trial that began two weeks ago.

Prosecutors challenge assessment of Carpio
PROVIDENCE -- Was he psychotic or evasive? Dealing with a major mental illness or a complicated love life? Hearing voices or simply repeating lyrics from a rap song?

Psychologist: Carpio 'probably in the throes of psychosis'
PROVIDENCE -- Hours after gunning down a detective with the officer's own pistol, a wailing Esteban Carpio told the police that he "went crazy" and that a voice told him the devil would get him if he didn't kill somebody.

Carpio told mother he was cursed
PROVIDENCE -- His mother said he talked about how the devil was going to get him. His girlfriend said he talked to his hand. And a psychiatrist said he had a form of psychosis.

Insanity defense is rarely deployed, fails in most cases
Corrected 6.19.2006
PROVIDENCE -- The insanity defense, which Esteban Carpio is using to fight the state's charge that he murdered Providence police Detective Sgt. James Allen, is rarely invoked and rarely succeeds.

Firearms expert shows jury gun that killed Allen
Detective Sgt. James L. Allen's Beretta Centurion has "a very heavy trigger-pull," as handguns go, Robert A. Hathaway said as he demonstrates the gun at the trial of Esteban Carpio.

During trial, Carpio wears leg restraint beneath his trousers
PROVIDENCE -- Esteban Carpio ran once. But he cannot run again. During his trial, the 27-year-old Boston native has been forced to wear a restraint on his right leg that prevents him from running or kicking.

Carpio's arrest detailed
PROVIDENCE -- When Esteban Carpio first came into the public eye, he was a shocking sight. He was led into court wearing an unusual plastic spit shield, his face badly bruised and oozing blood.

Witness testifies seeing Carpio flee from police station
PROVIDENCE -- At about midnight on April 16, 2005, Nicole Hanson and her boyfriend Nathan Fiero were driving by the Providence Public Safety Complex when she noticed something strange. She heard the sound of breaking glass and then shards of glass seemed to be falling from the sky.

Allen's final moments detailed: A struggle, cries for help, shots
PROVIDENCE -- A frantic police Detective Timothy C. McGann tried desperately to get through the conference room door. He moved back as far as he could go in the hallway in order to get a running start, then he threw his lower body against the locked door.

Detectives recall commotion, gunshots
PROVIDENCE -- At first, Detective Emilio Matos Jr. thought the commotion and the sound of a slamming door was coming from the cellblock downstairs at the Providence police station. But then he heard the gunshots.

Jury gets 2 images of Carpio
PROVIDENCE -- Two Esteban Carpios are on trial for murder in Superior Court. One is a cold-blooded killer who craftily sizes up a situation and strikes when he spots weakness. That is the prosecution image.

Opening statements lay out Carpio trial strategies
PROVIDENCE – Facing the jury for the first time this morning, Esteban Carpio's lawyer admitted that his client stabbed an elderly woman and shot to death a police detective last year.

Opening statements begin in Carpio case
PROVIDENCE -- A jury was seated in Superior Court yesterday in the trial of Esteban Carpio, who is charged with shooting to death Providence police Detective Sgt. James L. Allen.

Carpio will use insanity as defense
PROVIDENCE -- Esteban Carpio is going to argue that he is innocent by reason of insanity even if the state can prove that he shot to death Providence police Detective Sgt. James L. Allen.

Judge: Carpio will use insanity defense in officer's slaying
PROVIDENCE -- The suspect in the murder of a Providence police detective last year will rely on an insanity defense, the judge in his case confirmed this morning as jury selection got under way.

Carpio's murder trial to begin tomorrow
PROVIDENCE -- An event that severely shook the Police Department will be relived beginning tomorrow as Esteban Carpio goes on trial, charged with murder in the slaying of Detective Sgt. James L. Allen last year.