By Mark Reynolds
CRANSTON -- The Rhode Island Parole Board voted Monday to affirm its decision to grant parole to a man who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for the 1999 murder of a Woonsocket woman, according to the board's administrator.
Alfred A. Brissette Jr. will be eligible for release once an "appropriate discharge ... plan is in place," said the administrator, Matthew Degnan.
Brissette conspired with another man, Marc Girard, to kill and bury Jeannette Descoteaux in 1999.
According to authorities, Girard and Brissette lured the 38-year-old into a wooded area by promising cocaine and then beat her with various objects until she was dead. Brissette hit her in the head with a wrench several times.