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Andy Sanborn, owner of the Concord Casino, filed a civil complaint Thursday against the New Hampshire Lottery Commission arguing his due process was being violated and that he needed more time to prepare his defense. A court hearing is now scheduled for Oct. 20 ....
By Staff Report BRENTWOOD – A Rockingham Superior Court judge has once again rejected a bail hearing for a Massachusetts state trooper charged with allegedly head-butting and strangling his extramarital girlfriend. Attorney Hank Brennan, representing Sgt. Bryan Erickson, filed a motion for a new bail hearing arguing circumstances have changed since his client was last denied bail. In the motion, Brennan states the alleged victim, who had filed for a restraining order against Erickson, failed to appear at the May 4 hearing, and as a result the temporary order was dismissed by the Family Court. Given the alleged victim s deliberate absence from the restraining order hearing and her abandonment of the restraining order, the defendant raises the change in circumstance as a basis for the court to reconsider its bail order, Brennan wrote in the motion. ....
A Massachusetts state trooper accused of assaulting his girlfriend during a break-up was denied bail a second time. A Superior Court judge in Rockingham County refused to reconsider his earlier decision earlier this week to keep Bryan Erickson, 38, locked up as he awaits trial. Erickson’s attorney, Hank Brennan, had asked for bail to be reconsidered because of a pre-trial release report that stated Erickson could be released from jail and confined to his home where he lives with his wife and children. “Given this new information for the Court’s consideration the defendant request that the Court adopt RCSPR report and accept the defendant’s argument that the strict conditions set forth by RCSPR are appropriate and would mitigate the safety risks of allowing the Defendant to be released,” Brennan wrote in his motion referring to the Rockingham County Supervised Pretrial release program. ....