The Connecticut Supreme Court issued a mixed ruling Monday in the case of convicted murderer Richard Roszkowski, when it vacated his three murder convictions, which had been merged with two felony convictions, violating the double jeopardy clause of the U.S. Constitution. The ruling does not change the fact that Roszkowski will remain behind bars for the rest of his life.

Roszkowski was sentenced to death in 2014 for shooting to death two adults and a 9-year-old girl in Bridgeport in 2006. At the time, a state judge ruled that then-49-year-old Roszkowski should die by lethal injection. Roszkowski was convicted in 2009 of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Holly Flannery, her 9-year-old daughter, Kylie, and 38-year-old Thomas Gaudet. Police said Roszkowski believed Flannery and Gaudet were romantically involved.

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