The state will not be prosecuting the young woman at the center of an October 2016 conflict in a Norwich apartment that left one man without legs and another serving a 10-year prison sentence.

Lauren Muskus, 24, had been charged with tampering with physical evidence. The police alleged she removed a corset from the bedroom of an East Main Street apartment where the crime occurred and took it back to her condominium in Monroe.

Muskus had cooperated with the state by testifying at the November 2018 trial of her former boyfriend, Kirstopher Prudhomme. He was found guilty of first-degree assault, cruelty to persons and tampering with physical evidence, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The jury found him not guilty of a strangulation charge.

Muskus, Prudhomme and Prudhomme's friend and housemate, Michael Lovering, were involved in the Goth scene, according to testimony.

The state alleged Prudhomme choked Lovering with the string of a corset after Lovering admitted he had slept with Muskus while Prudhomme was at work. They said Prudhomme left Lovering in an unnatural position on his bedroom floor for 12 to 15 hours, resulting in the loss of circulation that necessitated amputation of both his legs.

Prosecutor Stephen M. Carney said the state had spoken with Muskus at length while preparing for Prudhomme's trial, and that the corset she took from the apartment was not one alleged to have been used in the crime.

"Under the circumstances, it would not be appropriate to pursue the tampering charge against her," Carney said.

Muskus had testified she was in Prudhomme's room the entire night. Though she said she and Prudhomme could hear Lovering groaning in his bedroom, Prudhomme did not check on Lovering or call 911 for about 14 hours, according to testimony.

Lovering still had his legs tucked beneath him when police arrived.

k.florin@theday.com