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Laurie List’s Legacy: They are called Exculpatory Evidence Schedules now, but InDepthNH.org continues its investigative reporting on the secret list that contains the names of law enforcement officers in New Hampshire who have a history of dishonesty, excessive force or mental instability. Catch up on our reporting here.
The new law allowing police on the Laurie List to argue in Superior Court why they should be removed has already cost one retired Nashua officer more than $1,000 and he still doesn’t know why he was put on the list four years ago, 18 years after he retired.
A Winchester Police Officer likely committed the crime of witness tampering, but he won’t be prosecuted, according to a statement released Friday by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
A Vermont man claims he was never told about the potential credibility issues surrounding former Keene Police Lt. James McLaughlin when he was prosecuted for sex crimes against children more than three decades ago.
All of the motions have now been filed. It is now up to Judge Charles Temple whether the Laurie List, also known as the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule or EES, will become public in its entirety.
Attorney General John Formella has posted the first compliance report for the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule, also known as the Laurie List, showing 38 officers have filed confidential lawsuits in Superior Court arguing to get off the list.
Renowned former Keene Police Detective James McLaughlin, who is reportedly fighting his placement on the state’s Laurie List, was caught sending child sex abuse images to a suspect he would later arrest, according to court records.
When Alexandra Drake reported that her superior in the New Boston Police Department was sexually harassing her, that he had a “rapability” scale for female drivers he stopped, and that he forced her to add lies to a police report, she was placed on leave, investigated, and then put on the state’s confidential Laurie List for police officers with credibility problems.
Robyn White spent nearly two weeks in jail during which time she was subject to illegal body searches, including invasive cavity exam, because a New Hampshire State Police Trooper fabricated a crime, according to White’s federal civil rights lawsuit.
Defense attorneys are scouring the partial Laurie List that was made public Wednesday searching for police who may have testified against their clients but failed to disclose discipline for dishonesty in their confidential personnel files.