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Judge Orders Deposition of DOC Personnel Head, But Not Ex-Commissioner Hanks in Prison Guard Murder Case

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 30, 2025

Ex-Department of Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks won’t have to explain why she destroyed her notes from witness interviews she conducted in the aftermath of patient Jason Rothe’s April 2023 death at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord.

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Defense Lawyer: YDC Abuse Suspect Indicted Without Evidence

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | May 29, 2025

There’s a serious problem with the indictments a grand jury handed up against former Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called YDC, staffer James Woodlock in 2021. One of them seems to be fictional, according to his lawyer.

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Ayotte Nixes Latest Pam Smart Request for Commutation Hearing

By Nancy West | May 29, 2025

Pam Smart, now 57, was turned down yet again for the chance to share what she has accomplished in her prison rehabilitation after serving three and a half decades of a life sentence for being an accomplice to the 1990 murder of her husband Gregg Smart in Derry.

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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) | May 29, 2025

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.

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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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Budget Progress with Improved Revenue and Maybe a Plan for the Arts Moving Forward

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | May 28, 2025

With only a few days left before the Senate Finance Committee needs to pull together its own two-year budget, there appears to be some good news and differences from the House’s version while big ticket items remain to be debated.

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AG: Autopsy Shows Manchester Man’s Death Was a Homicide

By News Release | May 28, 2025

The autopsy was conducted by Associate Medical Examiner Dr. Abigail Alexander. Dr. Alexander determined that Derek Jones’ cause of death was multiple sharp force injuries, and his manner of death was homicide. 

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Child Advocate Says $1.5M Budget Would Not Allow Her To Meet Statutory Mandate

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | May 28, 2025

The Senate could cut the size of the Office of the Child Advocate in half rather than entirely eliminating it, as was envisioned in the House budget, in order to save $2.2 million over two years.

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Manchester Man Sentenced in Burning, Beating Death of His Son, Age 7

By News Release | May 27, 2025

After a sentencing hearing, the court sentenced Mr. Mohammad to 45 years to life in state prison, stand committed, on the murder count, and a consecutive sentence of two to four years on the falsification count, to be suspended for ten years upon release on the murder sentence, with a condition that he commit no new crimes.

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