PLAINVILLE-LaResse Harvey, looks over documents related to her pardon request for a 1993 manslaughter conviction. MelNIE STENGEL/REGISTER

PLAINVILLE - LaResse Harvey, looks over documents related to her pardon request for a 1993 manslaughter conviction. MELANIE STENGEL/REGISTER


By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo
Investigations Editor
The woman who fatally stabbed East Hartford resident Jean Hill’s daughter stood inside a courtroom recently asking for a pardon.
But Hill wasn’t there. No one had told her LaResse Harvey, who was convicted of manslaughter and served prison time for stabbing Tammy Hill in 1993, was seeking a full pardon, which would have erased her criminal record.

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The City of New Haven's Re-Entry Initiative staff meets with ex-offenders interested in obtaining pardons. Re-Entry Initiative coordinator Althea Marshall Brooks left and Re-Entry Initiative community grants organizer Eric Rey center, and New Haven Leadership Youth Program intern Chance Jackson address the attendees. Mara Lavitt/New Haven Register 7/25/12

By Pamela McLoughlin
Register Staff
NEW HAVEN — Wayne Washington, 26, has been shot three times, operated on the streets for years and has two felonies on his record, both related to possession of firearms.

But since getting out of prison, where he served less than a year, Washington has turned his life around in a big way.

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