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US ordered to say if RI inmate faces death penalty
By wistv.com - AP
Published: 06/07/2012

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to indicate whether it will seek the death penalty for a Rhode Island inmate in a legal tug-of-war between the governor and federal prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge William Smith issued the order Wednesday regarding Jason Pleau (plew). He set a Tuesday deadline, but federal authorities sought and were granted a one-week extension.

Pleau is accused of fatally shooting a man outside a Woonsocket bank in 2010.

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