text: Owen Labrie, the former St. Paul’s School student convicted last year of having sex with an underclassman at the elite Granite State boarding school, will soon be set free on bail -- again. 
   
   After two months in jail, a New Hampshire judge ruled today the 20-year-old can post bail while he awaits his appeal. He will be put on a GPS monitor. 
   
   Labrie was convicted last October of sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and prohibited use of a computer and released on $15,000 bail while he appealed on the conditions that he live at his mother’s Tunbridge, Vermont, home and abide by a 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. curfew. 
   
   On Feb. 29, a reporter tweeted about an encounter with him on a train in Cambridge, where he said he was visiting his girlfriend at Harvard University. 
   
   Those tweets led to an investigation in which police found that he had violated his curfew at least 12 times, officials said. His bail was then revoked. 
   
   His lawyer successfully argued for his release again today before Merrimack County Judge Larry Smukler. 
   
   Develioping ... ||||| A prep school graduate convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old freshman girl as part of a game of sexual conquest called Senior Salute will again be free pending appeal. 
   
   
   
   Owen Labrie had been free after his conviction last year, but a judge revoked his bail in March after he admitted violating his curfew. He appealed to the state Supreme Court, which last week returned the matter to the trial court. 
   
   
   
   Labrie's attorney argued at a hearing on Monday that being locked up for two months has been a "life-changing" experience for him and he'll comply with any additional conditions. 
   
   
   
   A state prosecutor countered that the only thing that's changed is Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vermont, doesn't like being in jail. 
   
   
   
   A Merrimack County Superior Court judge said he'll allow Labrie to be released with electronic monitoring via GPS. The earliest Labrie would be released is Wednesday, and the latest is Friday, prosecutors said. 
   
   
   
   Labrie was arrested in 2014 days after graduating from St. Paul's School in Concord. He was 18 years old then and is 20 now. 
   
   
   
   During his trial, he testified that he and the girl had consensual sexual contact, but he denied having sexual intercourse with her. He acknowledged he had boasted to the contrary to friends, in profane emails and social media posts that were shared with the jury. 
   
   
   
   The encounter between Labrie and the girl took place in a nearly deserted building whose roof had a panoramic view of the school's 2,000-acre campus. After a brief time on the roof, the girl testified, Labrie led her to a dark mechanical room, they consensually kissed and touched each other and he raped her. 
   
   
   
   Labrie had been bound for Harvard University and had planned to take divinity classes before his arrest put everything on hold. He wept upon hearing the verdict last year. ||||| CONCORD — St. Paul’s School sex-trial convict Owen Labrie won a second chance at freedom Monday, when a judge said he can be released on bail while his lawyers challenge his conviction.Superior Court Judge Larry Smukler said Labrie, 20, can get out of jail once he is fitted with an electronic monitor that is tracked via GPS. Merrimack County officials said that will likely take place between Wednesday and Friday.“It’s clear that Mr. Labrie did break the trust of the court,” Smukler said. He added that he’s not 100 percent sure that Labrie will now comply, thus the need for monitoring.“To paraphrase another person, trust but verify,” the judge said.Labrie appeared at a Merrimack County Superior Court hearing in an orange prison jumpsuit with his ankles shackled. He was handcuffed and returned to jail once the hearing ended.Labrie’s lawyer Jaye Rancourt said Labrie and his family are happy with the decision. During a Monday afternoon hearing, she said the prep-school graduate will abide by the rules, and said her client had suffered sadness, fear, nervousness and boredom in his two months at jail.He moved out of administrative segregation just in the past week, she said.“He understands why he’s there. He will abide by the conditions,” she said. Those include residing at his mother’s Vermont home between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. Rancourt said Labrie will have a job working in manual labor.“I think a regular person wouldn’t have had his bail revoked,” Rancourt said when asked about Labrie’s treatment. “I think he’s been under intense scrutiny and probably treated more strictly than some.”His lawyers admit he violated bail several times earlier this year. The case went public when a reporter wrote about seeing him in March on an MBTA train, where Labrie said he was visiting his girlfriend in college.“Our concern is the safety of the community,” said Merrimack County prosecutor Catherine Ruffles. She noted Labrie was visiting a college campus and said he had not meaningfully participated in a psycho-sexual assessment.Without the assessment, Ruffles said she can’t determine the level of risk for the community.Meanwhile, the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence said the decision sends the wrong message to victims of crime.“When there is a lack of respect for our court system, people should be held accountable. When offenders do not face consequences for their actions, victims are the ones that pay the price,” spokesman Maureen McDonald said in an email.Labrie was released on bail after his conviction last summer on three misdemeanor sexual assault charges, a misdemeanor child endangerment charge and a felony unlawful computer use charge.He has appealed the conviction, but he is also seeking a new trial, claiming ineffective counsel.mhayward@unionleader.com..
target: – Owen Labrie, the prep school graduate found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate, has been given another shot at remaining free while he appeals the verdict, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports. The 20-year-old, whose bail was revoked two months ago when authorities discovered he had repeatedly violated his curfew, will be freed on bail again after he's fitted with a GPS monitor this week, reports the Boston Herald. Labrie's lawyer, Jaye Rancourt, says he has been frightened and sad during his time in prison, most of which was spent on administrative segregation, and he plans to abide by bail conditions, including living at his mother's home in Vermont under a 5pm to 8am curfew. After his conviction last year, Labrie was sentenced to a year in jail. Rancourt says Labrie will be working in manual labor while out on bail. The curfew violations that sent him to jail were exposed by a reporter he chatted to on a train. "I think a regular person wouldn't have had his bail revoked," Rancourt says. "I think he's been under intense scrutiny and probably treated more strictly than some." At Monday's hearing, Rancourt told the judge that jail time had been a "life-changing" experience for Labrie, though a state prosecutor argued that the only real change is that Labrie has discovered he doesn't like jail, reports WCVB. (Labrie's arrest and trial exposed the "Senior Salute" tradition of sexual conquest at the elite St. Paul's school in New Hampshire.)