Found one!
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/4557926/
"Double Murder Trial Starts NEW LONDON, Coon. <UP1) — The defense has begun in the double-murder case of Donald R. Brant, 43, and Richard DeFreitas, 36. 'The. first witoess, AUegra Munsoo of Hiddletown, R.I., an employe of the Rhode Island public defenders office, Tuesday- disputed the testimony of two; key protecution witnesses about the pair's location the day of the alleged murders. • Brant and DeFreitas are accused of killing Gustavous Carmichad, 38, of Baton and ap , unidentified : woman in Ledyard on Dec. 31, 1*70. Their bodes were found in May, 1974, when DeFreitas' former com- inon4iw wife Joanne ltd police to them. .Mix Murson testified she arrived at a party at Brant's rented- QuoDOcnontaug, R.I. cottage »1 8:30 pjn. on Dec. 31, 1*70 and left at 9:30. She said Brant and DeFreitas were both there when she arrived. Mn. DtFrdUs mtified toe pair were, in Ledyard until atoot 10 PJD. Jama Gardner, * former partner of the pair, hid tertifM'ht afrhtd at the party at 1»:M and that lfin i arriwd after he dW. "
Seems like it will take a little decoding, but the gist involves Allegra Munson who is a public defender (subsequently disciplined in the State of Rhode Island for committing a crime punishable by up to a year in prison...interesting...) testifying that Brandt and DeFreitas weren't where another witness testified on the day of the murders. I guess she went to a party at Brandt's house in Rhode Island on New Year's.
Found another related one. She married a man who was in prison for bank robbery named John Ouimette. She was forced to leave her position as public defender after sending a note on public defender stationary requesting that an inmate create fake license plates for Ouimette (whom she was not married to at the time but subsequently did marry).
https://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-25199.html
Title R.I. OFFICIAL TO LEAVE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S POST
Newspaper name BOSTON GLOBE
JC (BG)
Date - SUNDAY July 4, 1982
Author Associated Press
Edition FIRST
Section heading RUN OF PAPER
word Count 204
Dateline PROVIDENCE -
Lead paragraph Assistant public defender Allegra Munson, fined $500 for illegally requesting that a state prison inmate make three license plates, will leave her job this month.
Munson, 36, was fined Friday by Superior Court Judge Francis M. Kiely, who could have sentenced her to a year in prison on the misdemeanor charge of attempted larceny.
TX_TX She pleaded guilty to the count Feb. 26 in a plea bargaining agreement under which the state dropped charges of conveying contraband into the Adult Correctional Institutions, a felony, and dereliction of duty, a misdemeanor.
Public Defender William Reilly said Munson, an 11-year veteran of the department, is leaving her $35,108-a-year post voluntarily. The charges stem from a note sent last year on Munson's legal stationery to inmate George Brown, asking him to make three plates. The note, which was signed "Allegra," indicated one of the plates was intended for a friend of John Ouimette.
Ouimette is serving a life sentence for his alleged role in the multi- million-dollar Bonded Vault robbery.
Police charged that the note was an illegal request for license plates.
The Registry of Motor Vehicles would have no record of the plates if they were made at the prison and sent directly to someone. AG0519;07/03,09:54 CORCOR;07/06,11 B07814620
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