List includes officers who have engaged in misconduct that calls into question their truthfulness. Their names are redacted and ACLU-NH and news outlets are suing the state to make the names public.
Nevada Passes Modest Measures to Curb Prosecutorial Misconduct
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Two Nevada laws designed to counter bad behavior by state prosecutors, or at least give some defendants the ability to undo troubling plea agreements, passed last week, although one was substantially gutted under pressure from prosecutors and police.
Death of ‘Laurie’ List Legislation Disappoints Rochester Police Officer
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Rochester Police Officer John Gantert — who is out $20,000 from his unsuccessful attempt to remove his name from the secret “Laurie” list of potentially dishonest cops — is upset that legislation that would have protected law enforcement is now dead in the water.
criminal justice
Evidence of Police Dishonesty Leads to Overturned Convictions nationally
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Editor’s note: This story by Nancy West was sponsored by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and first published by VTDigger on July 19. West founded the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism, which launched its news website InDepthNH.org on Sept. 1.
Maybe Debra Jean Milke masterminded the murder of her tow-haired son Christopher in Phoenix just befyore Christmas 1989 to collect the 4-year-old’s $5,000 life insurance policy.
Or maybe – as Milke has insisted all along – she was just the innocent victim of a corrupt cop with a proven pattern of lying who was out to win a conviction.
Convicted Murderer Lopez Appeals Denial of New Trial to NH Supreme Court
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Convicted murderer Eduardo Lopez Jr. says a judge was wrong last month to rule that evidence of a police detective’s dishonesty decades ago wouldn’t have affected the 1993 guilty verdict against him.
No New Trial For Nashua Killer Despite Police Lie Years Ago
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A judge ruled against convicted murderer Eduardo Lopez’ bid for a new trial saying undisclosed evidence of a lie told decades ago by then-Nashua Police Detective John Seusing was “inconsequential” in proving Lopez’ guilt in 1993. Seusing went on to become the chief of the Nashua Police Department and retired in January.
Police discipline
Confidential Legislation Prohibits Firing Police For Dishonesty Label Alone
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Sen. Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, has filed confidential proposed legislation that provides police with a process to appeal placement on secret lists designating dishonest officers.
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Police Discipline Secrecy vs. Your Right to a Fair Trial
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Members of the Commission on the Use of Police Personnel Files and two people who testified before it have differing views about how to be fair to police and to defendants.
criminal justice
150 Names on Lists of Potentially Dishonest Police Officers in NH
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The names of an estimated 150 sworn law enforcement officers are maintained on a hodgepodge of “Laurie” lists kept by the state’s 10 county attorneys in New Hampshire.
It appears many of the officers no longer work in law enforcement in the county that lists their name, but it is impossible to be sure because the names are redacted and each county attorney reports their numbers in different formats. (see lists from all 10 counties below.)
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Rochester Police Officer ‘Shattered’ by ‘Laurie’ designation
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CONCORD — It didn’t take long for John Gantert’s life to fall apart four years ago when he was fired from the Rochester Police Department over a report he filled out that landed him on the hated “Laurie” list.
Gantert, now 33, was quickly evicted from Wyandotte Falls housing because his living arrangement there hinged on him working as community police officer. His girlfriend left him.
Gantert was suddenly alone and unemployed after six years on the job.
“I lost everything within 30 days,” Gantert told members of a commission studying Laurie issues on Wednesday. “It was unreal.”
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