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State Doesn’t Want Ex-DOC Head Helen Hanks Questioned in Prison Guard Murder Trial 

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | 5 hours ago

Prosecutors assigned to former corrections officer Matthew Millar’s second-degree murder case don’t want former Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks answering questions about her destruction of evidence in the matter.

Courts & Corrections

Dartmouth Grad Wants Rape Conviction Overturned

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 28, 2025

The Snapchat video made by Kyle Clampitt’s reported rape victim moments after the assault took place on a Dartmouth fraternity roof should not have been part of the trial evidence, according to an appeal notice filed by Clampitt’s attorney.

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State Pays Millions To Families of Harmony, Elijah and Dennis

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 23, 2025

The state maintains it did nothing wrong in the tragic events that led to the separate murders of Harmony Montgomery, Elijah Lewis, and Dennis Vaughn Jr., but it still agreed to pay the families more than $10 million in total.

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Motion Says Ousted DOC Head Helen Hanks Destroyed Evidence in Murder Probe

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 21, 2025

According to the motion, evidence previously withheld shows Hanks met with corrections officers about Rothe’s death after she was notified that the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office was investigating and those officers were potential witnesses.

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Audit Affirms More Than $1.1 Billion in Pending YDC Abuse Claims

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 20, 2025

Lawmakers trying to make sense of the staggering price tag to settle decades of horrific child abuse perpetrated by state employees got details they asked for on the Youth Development Center Claims Administration and Settlement Fund.

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Helen Hanks Is Out as Corrections Commissioner

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 19, 2025

Department of Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks resigned suddenly on Monday, and seemingly against her will, after months of controversy over the way she treats staff.

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Camp Fatima Lawsuit Heads To NH Supreme Court for Oral Arguments

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 14, 2025

Whether or not a man who claims he was sexually abused as a child by a Roman Catholic priest is allowed to bring a lawsuit against the Diocese of Manchester is about to get decided by the state Supreme Court.

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Acquitted of Killing Motorcyclists, Zhukovskyy’s License Suspension Stands

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 6, 2025

A jury found Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not guilty of causing the deaths of seven motorcycle riders in the 2019 crash, but Superior Court Judge Martin Honigberg ruled he is still responsible for the deaths.

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Child Porn Convict Featured in Netflix ‘Sextortion’ Documentary  

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 5, 2025

It was a grimly commonplace press release recently from the United States Attorney’s Office in Concord. A Harrisville man pleaded guilty to possession of child sex abuse images.

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  • Dartmouth Grad Wants Rape Conviction Overturned

    By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org The Snapchat video made by Kyle Clampitt’s reported rape victim moments after the assault took place on a Dartmouth fraternity roof should not have been part of the trial evidence, according to an appeal notice filed by Clampitt’s attorney. Clampitt, 28, is at the start of his 20 to 40 year prison sentence after a jury found him guilty on 12 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault this January, concluding the trial in Grafton Superior Court.

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