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Hillsborough County Superior Courthouse South. File Photo/Carol Robidoux
MANCHESTER, NH – A Superior Court judge has taken under advisement a Black Nashua teen’s request to withdraw his guilty plea to a misdemeanor riot charge connected to last year’s Black Lives Matter protests because co-defendants sentenced so far, most of whom are White, received no jail time.
Antwan Stroud, 18, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor riot charge that resulted in a sentence of 30 days in jail. Had he known of the sentence outcomes of his co-defendants, he said he never would have agreed to plead guilty.
The irony is Stroud was protesting the racial inequalities in the justice system only to experience that same injustice as a racial minority himself, according to his defense attorney.
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A group of protesters marched from Elm Street to South Willow on June 2, 2020, and as more people joined in, the event turned from peaceful to what police characterized as a “riot.” Photo/Jeffrey Hastings
MANCHESTER, NH – A Black teen from Nashua, sentenced to 30 days in jail on a misdemeanor riot charge connected to last June’s Black Lives Matters protests, wants to withdraw his guilty plea because co-defendants sentenced so far – most of whom are White – received no jail time.
Defense attorneys Donna J. Brown and Michael G. Eaton said in their motion filed Wednesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District their client, Antwan Stroud, 18, of 1 Oneils Court, Nashua, never would have pleaded guilty had he known the outcome of the other defendants’ cases.