Posts by Pat Grossmith
Adam Montgomery wants a judge to allow him unlimited access to Grand Jury transcripts of witnesses expected to testify next week at his trial on gun-related charges.
Two men fired a total of 15 rounds from a pair of 9 mm handguns in a daylight shooting Saturday afternoon that injured four people attending a graduation party at Elmwood Gardens, according to court records.
Judge Amy B. Messer in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District, issued the ruling in Attorney General John M. Formella’s civil action case against Ackerly, who was 16 at the time of the April 20, 2022 incident. The state is seeking preliminary and permanent injunctive relief as well as the imposition of a $5,000 fine. A hearing on that portion of the case is set for May 15 at 1:30 p.m.
Akwasi Owusu, convicted last week of stabbing three city police officers more than three years ago, is not guilty by reason of insanity, a Superior Court judge ruled after a bench trial.
Dr. Shannon Bader, chief forensic examiner of the New Hampshire Office of the Forensic Examiner, diagnosed Owusu, 21, of 6 Ahern St., as suffering from schizophrenia on Feb. 4, 2020, when he stabbed officers Brendan Langston, Olivia LaCroix and Kevin Shields.
On May 9 a second trial will begin in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District to determine if Owusu is not guilty by reason of insanity.
Two women, who won an appeal to the New Hampshire Supreme Court over evictions, are moving on with their lives and into new apartments, after reaching agreements Thursday with their landlord.
Two women who appealed court rulings ordering their eviction last year from their rundown apartments are back in 9th Circuit Court – Manchester on Thursday after the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in their favor last month.
Owusu, now 21, of 6 Ahern St., is on trial in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District on three counts each of attempted murder and first-degree assault, and one charge of criminal mischief.
A woman charged with negligent homicide and reckless manslaughter in the death of Michael Shattuck, her former fiance who died when she allegedly crashed her car head-on into another vehicle, is free on personal recognizance bail pending trial.
At the height of rush hour last month, Aliadi Rose Abreau drove her car at 80 mph through a busy Granite Street intersection, colliding head-first with another car and killing Michael Shattuck, her passenger and ex-fiance, according to a prosecutor.
A city man, charged with negligent homicide in his girlfriend’s death in a June 2021 motorcycle crash, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the lesser felony charge of reckless conduct, deadly weapon.
A 20-year-old man, accused of trying to murder a trio of police officers, maintains they were the aggressors and it is a case of self-defense.
A former Valley Street jail guard received a six-month suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to punching an inmate in the face in 2021.
By 2040, 88,400 new housing units will be needed, with 30,000 of them rental units. To accomplish this, the state needs to increase building permits by 36 percent statewide. (From 2017 to 2021, about 4,000 building permits were issued per year.) “The only plausible way that this could be achieved is through a combination of local and state action,” the study said.
“You engaged in one of the most elaborate cover-ups I have seen in all the years I have been on the bench and you almost got away with it,” Judge Will Delker said Delker said.
The grand jury handed up 243 indictments in March.
This week, after a three-hour hearing on Monday, Judge Polly L. Hall, presiding in 9th Circuit – District Division- Manchester, dismissed both cases. She didn’t write an order explaining her decision but checked boxes on standardized forms that said Lavigne didn’t prove Alvarez engaged in “prohibited practices” under tenant and landlord laws, and that he did not stalk her as defined under state law.
