By John Hill
The Providance Journal
PROVIDENCE, RI. — Saying getting fired was punishment enough, the state has decided it won’t criminally prosecute a former corrections officer for creating a Facebook page that implied it belonged to Corrections Department Director A. T. Wall, prosecutors told the man’s lawyer Friday.
” … The fact that your client has been terminated as a corrections officer leads to the conclusion that substantial justice has been achieved in the matter,” Assistant Attorney General Thomas H. O’Brien said in a letter to John R. Grasso, the lawyer representing ex-corrections officer Matthew S. Lacroix.
The state had threatened to prosecute Lacroix for impersonating a state official. Grasso had argued that charge was inappropriate because while Lacroix had created a Facebook page supposedly for someone named “A.T. Wal,” Grasso said it was clearly meant as a joke, not a serious impersonation.
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