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"Judge's service means trial's end; State can't prosecute assault accusation"

"Judge's service means trial's end; State can't prosecute assault accusation": The Concord (N.H.) Monitor today contains an article that begins, "The state has lost its chance to prosecute a lawyer from Londonderry charged with assaulting a juvenile with a leather belt because before the trial ended, the judge left the bench for a tour of duty in Iraq. In a unanimous opinion issued yesterday, the state Supreme Court ruled that, narrow exceptions aside, Ernest Solomon had a constitutional right to have one judge hear his criminal case from start to finish."

And The Associated Press reports that "Judge Departs for Iraq, Charges Dropped."

You can access yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).