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A man who was on the run for more than two decades has pleaded guilty to escaping from a jail in Virginia in 1982.
Richard Boucher (boo-SHAY) entered his plea Thursday in
Chesapeake Circuit Court.
The 57-year-old Boucher also entered an Alford plea to
assaulting a guard. An Alford plea means a defendant doesn't admit guilt but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict.
Boucher faces up to 15 years in prison when sentenced Jan. 21.
His lawyer, Heather Crook, said he hopes for leniency and just
wants to go home to his family in Georgia. Boucher was living in northern Georgia with his wife when the FBI arrested him in May.
Prosecutors said Boucher was serving a 10-year sentence for
robbery when he and another inmate escaped from the Chesapeake city jail on Oct. 24, 1982.
