ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It is the end of a legal saga for the New Mexico Corrections Department, more than a decade after mistakenly releasing a man from prison, who eventually murdered an Albuquerque woman. The state is now paying to end a lawsuit over that release, years after claiming it shouldn't be held responsible.

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Chris Blattner was charged with Kathy Paquin's murder after Paquin disappeared from her home on Aug. 15, 2012. When the murder

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