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State Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has filed a notice of her intent to plead “no contest” without admitting guilt to one class B misdemeanor of Criminal Solicitation of Misuse of Position, which means she will pay a $1,200 fine and face no jail time.
Hantz Marconi will be sentenced by Judge Martin Honigberg in Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord Tuesday at 3 p.m.
Hantz Marconi, 69, of Stratham, was originally indicted by a Merrimack County Grand Jury for two felonies and five misdemeanors relating to her alleged attempts to interfere with a criminal investigation into her husband, Ports and Harbors director Geno Marconi, 74, by meeting with then-Gov. Chris Sununu and speaking with Steve Duprey, chairman of the Pease Development Center.
Jury selection for Justice Hantz Marconi was scheduled for next month. Her husband’s trial was recently delayed until at least mid-February 2026 because the same prosecutors were handling both cases that were set one day apart from each other.
Attorney General John Formella, Sununu, five judges, including Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald, were among those subpoenaed to testify in Hantz Marconi’s trial.
Geno Marconi is charged with one count of witness tampering, one count of falsifying physical evidence, two counts of obstructing government administration, and two counts of disclosure/misuse of DMV records for actions he allegedly took before and after he was placed on paid leave by the Pease Development Authority.
He is accused of deleting phone messages and sharing confidential motor vehicle records of Neil Levesque, vice chairman of the PDA, with another person Brad Cook. Cook was charged with perjury.
Hantz Marconi and the State agreed to waive an offer of proof.
“Justice Hantz Marconi’s counsel will state at the time of the entry of the no contest plea that she
is not contesting that the State could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she solicited
Governor Sununu to seek information regarding the investigation of Geno Marconi.
“Justice Hantz Marconi will pay a fine of $1,200 due on the day of the plea/sentencing hearing.
The State shall confirm during the colloquy that the State agrees that the offense of which
Justice Hantz Marconi is being convicted falls outside of the definition of “serious crime” in
N.H. Sup. Ct. R. 37(9)(b) because it does not involve a felony nor does any necessary element
of the charge, as determined by statutory or common law definitions, involve interference with
the administration of justice, false swearing, misrepresentation, fraud, deceit, bribery, extortion,
misappropriation, theft, or an attempt or a conspiracy or solicitation of another to commit a
‘serious crime,’” according to the court records.
The terms of the fully negotiated plea agreement were negotiated between the State, represented by Deputy Attorney General James Boffetti, Senior Assistant Attorney General Dan Jimenez, and Assistant Attorney General Joseph Fincham, and the Defendant, represented by Attorney Richard Guerriero, Attorney Jonathan Kotlier, and Attorney Oliver Bloom.