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At approximately 2:40 p.m. on November 6, 2024, Plymouth Police officers were dispatched to a residence for a call of a disturbance at 27 Route 25 in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Responding police officers heard sounds consistent with gunshots coming from the interior of the residence at which point the subject barricaded himself inside.
At 4:19 p.m. Monday Secretary of State David Scanlan emailed Clerks, Moderators and Select Boards, telling them that several municipalities had recently received a letter titled “Notice of Breach in Application of Election Law & Constitutional Violations.”
Indicted state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi’s lawyer filed a motion late Thursday afternoon seeking to disqualify Attorney General John Formella and all of the lawyers in his office from her case due to “conflicts” and to dismiss all indictments against her.
Five Superior Court judges filling in for the recused state Supreme Court have suspended Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi from the practice of law in New Hampshire while she is on administrative leave from the high court.
DNA testing is underway on evidence in the 1988 murder of Sharon Johnson, and Jason Carroll hopes the results will make him the first man in New Hampshire to prove that he was wrongly convicted of murder and is in fact innocent as he has claimed throughout the decades he has been imprisoned.
The state is undertaking a massive, $50.7 million modernization project of its fish hatchery at New Hampton to help clean up the water from fish waste, improve and create efficiencies and protect the trout from predators like otters, osprey and eagles.
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that the New Hampshire Department of Justice has completed its investigation into the shooting death of Samuel Lozada (age 24) in Bartlett, New Hampshire on July 5, 2023.
Retired Superior Court Chief Justice Tina Nadeau has been assigned to fill in for state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald in the attorney discipline case against indicted state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi. MacDonald and the other four justices have all recused themselves from the matter.
Court records in the criminal case against Malcolm Badger, 28, of Bartlett, alleging the real estate agent bought alcohol for students and one charge of felonious sexual assault have all been sealed, according to court spokesman Av Harris.