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But with about a month to go before the trial starts, Rockingham Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman ruled Hoopes cannot represent the state while his partner, attorney Douglas Brooks is representing one of the YDC victims in a Massachusetts criminal case, a man referred to in court records as J.D.
March 5, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/03/05/judge-kicks-lawyer-off-states-ydc-defense-team/Lawyers for more than 1,000 Sununu Youth Services Center victims say the state is hiding evidence of its own corruption in a search warrant affidavit that’s been sealed for more than four years.
February 26, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/02/26/hidden-search-warrant-exposes-state-corruption-according-to-ydc-victims/Frank Davis, 82, is scheduled for a hearing in Hillsborough Superior Court — North in Manchester on April 22. That comes after missed deadlines forced Judge William Delker to re-issue the order for a competency evaluation late last year.
January 23, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/01/23/competency-hearing-set-for-ydc-abuse-suspect/It’s been more than a year since a judge first ordered the competency evaluation for alleged Sununu Youth Development Center abuser Frank Davis, only to have to reissue the order because the evaluation never happened.
September 13, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/09/13/accused-ydc-abusers-criminal-case-remains-in-limbo/Moon, Pinard, and Ricker all filed civil lawsuits against the state under Jane Doe pseudonyms, but have decided to drop their anonymity because of the man they say raped them.
September 7, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/09/07/lost-hope-ydc-victims-frustrated-by-lack-of-ag-prosecution/Hundreds of abuse victims will get their days in court now that Rockingham Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman has denied the state’s motions to dismiss all of the Sununu Youth Detention Center lawsuits.
August 16, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/08/16/ydc-abuse-lawsuits-survive-states-attempt-to-dismiss/The lawyer representing the first victim to be awarded $1.5 million for abuse suffered as a child incarcerated at the Youth Development Center filed a motion Wednesday to strike the lien his former lawyers filed against his maximum recovery arguing they did nothing to earn their fee.
June 7, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/06/07/ydc-victim-who-was-awarded-1-5m-wants-lien-by-former-lawyers-terminated/As officials with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and the New Hampshire State Police are being called to give depositions in the Sununu Youth Services Center abuse case, the judge assigned to the civil lawsuits is questioning the role of the state’s top law enforcement agency.
May 5, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/05/05/judge-questions-ags-conflict-at-heart-of-ydc-abuse-cases/Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., has settled the first claim under New Hampshire’s YDC Settlement Fund on behalf of a client who was sexually and physically assaulted at YDC in the 1970s, according to a news release issued Wednesday.
February 15, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/02/15/first-ydc-settlement-from-legislative-fund-lawyers-for-1000-victims-call-it-low-ball-sell-out/