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DOVER – The attorney for former Dover police officer Ronald “RJ” Letendre asked for his client to have access to guns while out on bail on a felony charge of falsifying physical evidence.
Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi also revealed Letendre and his estranged wife, Sarah Letendre, may be seeking to reunite, raising that as a concern regarding the guns.
Public defender Carl Swenson argued Friday morning “that there is a constitutional right to a firearm” and Letendre should not be prevented from having access to one “merely because of an accusation of a felony-level offense.”
Swenson told Superior Court Judge Mark Howard “the circumstances of this case does not suggest” there would be any danger for Letendre to have “access to a firearm.”
Fosters Daily Democrat
ROCHESTER Police say a New Durham man badly injured a Frisbie Memorial Hospital security officer early Sunday when he assaulted him in the hospital s parking lot.
Police charged Tyler Thurston, 29, of New Durham, with second-degree assault for allegedly assaulting the security officer around 3:20 a.m. Sunday, according to Rochester Police Capt. Todd Pinkham.
The security officer, who was found unresponsive, sustained serious injuries after being punched in the face and falling to the pavement and striking his head. He was transported to Portsmouth Regional Hospital.
His condition wasn t immediately available Monday.
Pinkham said Thurston was held on bail and transported to the Strafford County House of Corrections on Sunday. He was scheduled for arraignment Monday in Strafford County Superior Court.
The postponement of all Superior Court trials until at least January means defendants will stay in jail longer, raising the question of their constitutional right to a speedy trial.
Chief Justice of the Superior Court Tina Nadeau decided to postpone jury trials, the state judicial branch announced Friday, in an effort to slow COVID-19 spread and keep trial participants safer.
Courts closed during the first coronavirus wave last spring, and trials only resumed in late summer. But as infection rates rose again, Nadeau canceled trials at Strafford County Superior Court in November, citing poor air circulation. Last week, she called off trials scheduled for January at Belknap County, Hillsborough County-South and Sullivan County superior courts.
There will be no in-person trials in any of New Hampshireâs superior courts for the rest of the year, after Chief Justice of the Superior Court Tina Nadeau decided to postpone jury trials in the face of COVID-19 spread.
Nadeau canceled trials at Strafford County Superior Court in November. Last week, she canceled trials scheduled for January at Belknap County, Hillsborough County-South, and Sullivan County Superior Courts.
On Friday, the New Hampshire Judicial Branch announced that all other trials scheduled in the stateâs superior courts will be put off until 2021, with some trials scheduled in January.
Nadeau and other court officials consulted with an epidemiologist to determine that the court could not hold jury trials safely, according to a news release from the state judicial branch. Poor air circulation in the courthouses, and high rates of virus transmission have made jury trials unsafe, Nadeau said in a statement.