CONCORD – The young Hollis man whose story spurred opposition to holding mentally ill patients who haven’t committed a crime at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison has been transferred back to the state’s psychiatric hospital.
Courts & Corrections
UPDATED Some For, Others Against Disguising Victim Names in Supreme Court Records
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Updated: Concord Monitor reporter Lola Duffort reported June 8 that the proposed rule change was voted down by an advisory panel by a vote of 8 to 6 on Friday.
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Hearing Friday To Consider Disguising Victims’ Names in NH Supreme Court Records
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CONCORD – A public hearing Friday, June 1, at the New Hampshire Supreme Court will consider a proposed rule change that would require disguising victims’ names and sealing other identifiers in Supreme Court records.
Justice Souter Is Still a Ratepayer’s Rock Star 30 Years Later in PSNH Case
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The date was August 5, 1988. Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) had recently declared bankruptcy, the first electric utility in the U.S. to do that since the Great Depression. The crushing debt and massive cost overruns associated with the Seabrook nuclear power plant had sucked PSNH dry.
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Andrew Butler Supporters Protest Sending Non-Criminal Mentally Ill People To Prison
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CONCORD – About 35 people marched two miles from the men’s prison to U.S. District Court in Concord on Thursday to support Andrew Butler of Hollis and others who are locked up at the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit.
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Andrew Butler of Hollis: ‘I do appreciate all the support’
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His supporters are planning on Thursday to walk the two miles from the state prison to the State House to the U.S. District Court on Pleasant Street in Concord to “Free Andrew,” a walk sponsored by human rights advocates.
‘Pilgrimage’ for Andrew Butler From Prison to Federal Court Set For Thursday in Concord
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CONCORD — Supporters are holding a walk from the state prison in Concord to the federal courthouse for Andrew Butler of Hollis and other prisoners at the Secure Psychiatric Unit of the men’s prison on Thursday starting at 9 a.m., according to an American Friends Service Committee news release.
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State Files Court Memo In Andrew Butler Case Under Seal
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Updated: CONCORD — Andrew Butler’s father says the state is trying to hide its federal court response to his son’s demand for transfer out of the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit because he hasn’t committed a crime by filing some of the documents under seal.
Business & Economy
Right To Know NH Meets Saturday, May 19 at 9 a.m. in Concord
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Right to Know NH will meet on Saturday, May 19, at 9:00 A.M. in Concord at 8 North Main Street in the office of the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers.
N.H. Judge Unseals Documents in Carman Case After NEFAC Argues for Disclosure
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After considering arguments made by the New England First Amendment Coalition, a New Hampshire court last week unsealed judicial records in a case involving Nathan Carman, a Vermont resident being investigated for the murder of his wealthy grandfather and the disappearance of his mother.