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Former Sen. Jeffrey Woodburn is pictured in Coos Superior Court in this file photo. Behind him is Senior Assistant Attorney General Geoffrey Ward. (Nancy West/InDepthNH)
LANCASTER, NH The jury that will hear domestic violence-related charges against Jeffrey Woodburn of Whitefield was selected Wednesday in Coos Superior Court almost three years after he was arrested while still a sitting state Senator.
Woodburn, 55, a popular Democrat who lost the election following his arrest amid calls for his resignation from members of his own party, sat in the courtroom with his attorney Donna Brown of Manchester Wednesday during jury selection, but spoke only with Brown.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 3/8/2021 4:40:14 PM
Attorneys for Britany Barron are scheduled to meet with the state Attorney General’s office to discuss a possible plea deal this week. Barron, of Jaffrey, is charged with three felony counts of tampering with evidence for allegedly helping her husband cover up the murder of Jonathan Amerault of Keene.
During a dispositional conference at the Coos Superior Court, held by teleconference on Monday, attorneys for both sides said they were working toward a possible plea agreement. The two sides are scheduled to meet Wednesday out of court to discuss a plea agreement and several other matters.
By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org
Britany Barron was doing what her husband told her to do when she cut the head off of her dead lover and dumped his body in a remote stream, and Judge Peter Bornstein said thatâs reason enough to keep her in jail pending trial.
âThe defendant did as her husband told her to do,â Bornstein said at Britany Barronâs bail hearing Monday. âThere is still a substantial risk the defendant will do as her husband tells her to do.â
Barron, 31, is charged with destroying evidence after her husband, Armando Barron, shot and killed her lover, Jonathan Amerault, 25, on Sept. 19, 2020, in Jaffrey.
LANCASTER â The Jaffrey woman charged with falsifying evidence in the murder and beheading of Jeffrey Amerault of Keene last September will soon get a hearing on her request for bail.
At a telephonic dispositional hearing Monday morning for Britany Barron, 31, in Coos County Superior Court, Assistant State Attorney General Benjamin Agati said the state was not able to make a plea offer to the defense because it is still receiving discovery and test results.
Citing COVID-19 and the volume of paperwork in the case, Agati requested moving the hearing to March. Asked by Judge Peter Bornstein what they were looking at for a trial date, the state said it would not be ready until December at the earliest.