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Contracts Reveal Chiefs Routinely Purge Discipline From Police Personnel Files
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Yet another twist to the Laurie List controversy.
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Three Unidentified Officers Removed from Secret ‘Laurie List’ Under New Protocol
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CONCORD – Three law enforcement names have been removed from New Hampshire’s secretive list of 171 officers with credibility, excessive force or mental instability issues since Attorney General Gordon MacDonald announced the new removal protocol on April 30.
Nevada Passes Modest Measures to Curb Prosecutorial Misconduct
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Two Nevada laws designed to counter bad behavior by state prosecutors, or at least give some defendants the ability to undo troubling plea agreements, passed last week, although one was substantially gutted under pressure from prosecutors and police.
Death of ‘Laurie’ List Legislation Disappoints Rochester Police Officer
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Rochester Police Officer John Gantert — who is out $20,000 from his unsuccessful attempt to remove his name from the secret “Laurie” list of potentially dishonest cops — is upset that legislation that would have protected law enforcement is now dead in the water.
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Evidence of Police Dishonesty Leads to Overturned Convictions nationally
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Editor’s note: This story by Nancy West was sponsored by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and first published by VTDigger on July 19. West founded the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism, which launched its news website InDepthNH.org on Sept. 1.
Maybe Debra Jean Milke masterminded the murder of her tow-haired son Christopher in Phoenix just befyore Christmas 1989 to collect the 4-year-old’s $5,000 life insurance policy.
Or maybe – as Milke has insisted all along – she was just the innocent victim of a corrupt cop with a proven pattern of lying who was out to win a conviction.
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Court: Rochester Police Officer Stays on ‘Laurie’ List
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John Gantert, the Rochester police officer who fought for five years to have his name removed from a “Laurie” list of potentially dishonest officers, has lost his last appeal – this one to the state Supreme Court.
Convicted Murderer Lopez Appeals Denial of New Trial to NH Supreme Court
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Convicted murderer Eduardo Lopez Jr. says a judge was wrong last month to rule that evidence of a police detective’s dishonesty decades ago wouldn’t have affected the 1993 guilty verdict against him.
No New Trial For Nashua Killer Despite Police Lie Years Ago
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A judge ruled against convicted murderer Eduardo Lopez’ bid for a new trial saying undisclosed evidence of a lie told decades ago by then-Nashua Police Detective John Seusing was “inconsequential” in proving Lopez’ guilt in 1993. Seusing went on to become the chief of the Nashua Police Department and retired in January.
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Confidential Legislation Prohibits Firing Police For Dishonesty Label Alone
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Sen. Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, has filed confidential proposed legislation that provides police with a process to appeal placement on secret lists designating dishonest officers.