Standing in the very same room where a Hampshire County grand jury originally decided to bring a first-degree murder charge against Cara Rintala, a former Granby woman convicted of killing her wife in 2010, prosecutors laid out the complexities that made the case so difficult — exactly 12 years to the day after the indictment was brought by jurors.
“It’s been a long interesting ride,” Steven Gagne, a prosecutor out of the Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan’s Office, said Thursday afternoon only minutes after a judge sentenced Rintala to 12 to 14 years in state prison. “This has been unlike any other case.”
