Stabbing deaths appeal to go before state Supreme Court
May 3, 2021
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Following a mistrial, lawyers for a New Hampshire man accused of stabbing two women to death in 2017 plan to argue in an appeal before the state Supreme Court that mishandled evidence prejudiced his case, and that the charges should be dropped.
Fosters Daily Democrat reports the state Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments last month in the case of Timothy Verrill, 38. A date hasn t been set yet.
Verrill is accused of stabbing the women in Farmington. He had pleaded not guilty.
A judge declared a mistrial in 2019 after it was discovered that investigators had failed to turn over witness interview recordings, emails, text messages and other evidence that could’ve shaped the defense and state’s cases and who the attorneys subpoenaed to testify at trial.
Guy Trammell Jr. and Amy Miller
This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Ala., and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about police in the United States.
By Guy Trammell Jr.
In the 1960s. my brother, Ernest, and George Ware, the Tuskegee Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) field director, crashed during a police chase while distributing voter registration fliers. Both had broken ribs and glass in their eyes. After another police chase, they rushed to the ever-present car with tinted windows following them and beat on the car. The window was slightly rolled down to reveal FBI suits and sun glasses. They angrily yelled, “Why didn’t you protect us?” The answer: “We only observe and record.” Later, arrested in Nashville, they were unharmed while news cameras flashed, but in a closed elevator minutes later the bea
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Tracy Marie Chalke’s scrapbook begins with a newspaper photo of a crumpled up car with the words “CAR ACCIDENT” above it.
Below is a cut-out rose and the tagline of the Foster’s Daily Democrat “The Region’s Largest Newspaper” and the date: April 21, 2000.
Following those pages is a news story of the accident. It details the death of 21-year-old Lebanon, Maine resident Gerard Ouellette Jr. in an April 2000 crash involving him and Chalke, who was then known as Borrelli.
Chalke and Ouellette were two weeks away from getting married when the accident took place.
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ROCHESTER The City Council has decided to formally accept the resignation of Councilor Doug Lachance at its May 4 meeting.
Lachance, a current Ward 1 councilor and former mayor of Rochester, announced he would resign last week after facing allegations of sexual abuse, which are being investigated by police and the Strafford County attorney. He has not been charged with a crime and the investigation is ongoing.
Foster s Daily Democrat published detailed accounts of the allegations by two accusers, as well as Lachance s denial of the allegations. Lachance cited the Foster s story when informing city officials he was resigning.
Now the council is working on its next steps, which were discussed in its meeting Tuesday night.