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Laurie List’s Legacy: They are called Exculpatory Evidence Schedules now, but InDepthNH.org continues its investigative reporting on the secret list that contains the names of law enforcement officers in New Hampshire who have a history of dishonesty, excessive force or mental instability. Catch up on our reporting here.
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.
Solicitor General Daniel E. Will said state law mandates the list be confidential.
Yet another twist to the Laurie List controversy.
CONCORD – Three law enforcement names have been removed from New Hampshire’s secretive list of 171 officers with credibility, excessive force or mental instability issues since Attorney General Gordon MacDonald announced the new removal protocol on April 30.
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.
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.
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.
John Gantert, the Rochester police officer who fought for five years to have his name removed from a “Laurie” list of potentially dishonest officers, has lost his last appeal – this one to the state Supreme Court.
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.