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Former Supreme Court Chief Justice John Broderick has joined forces with trauma expert Jennifer Adams and Peggy Haskett to launch a trauma informed mediation practice to help settle civil lawsuits involving deeply sensitive matters such as sexual abuse, wrongful deaths, and medical malpractice – the first such practice to advertise that niche in the state.
Destroyed state records and expert witnesses who lack expertise are now taking center stage for the state’s defense in the Saddleback Mountain Retreat sex abuse lawsuit.
The state’s Supreme Court justices got it wrong when they unanimously ruled to overturn Adam Montgomery’s second-degree murder conviction due partly to the weak evidence presented, according to a new motion to reconsider filed by New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella’s office.
Testimony from a dead witness helped convict Timothy Verrill in the bloody double-murder of Christine Sullivan and Jenna Pellegrini nine years ago in Farmington, but now it may help overturn those convictions.
In fact, DHHS Chief Legal Counsel Frank Nachman testified on Monday that the state found almost no records related to Saddleback, which was shut down in 1993 after Tsetsilas was arrested for kidnapping and raping one of the girls placed in his facility by the state.
The evidence at trial established that between August 17 and August 22, 2018, Nadeau induced his now former client, who had recently suffered a traumatic brain injury, to loan him $275,000 under false pretenses. Nadeau subsequently induced this same client to provide him with a second loan on December 12, 2018.
“The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner conducted the autopsy today and determined the minor’s cause of death was a single gunshot wound (to his) chest, and his manner of death was homicide,” the release said.
The new administrator for the Youth Development Center settlement fund had to settle for $20 million instead of the $55 million he sought from the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee.
The plaintiffs in the Rand education funding case ask that two Supreme Court orders be reconsidered that allow Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and Associate Justice Daniel Will to refuse to recuse themselves from the case now before the state’s highest court.