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| Inmates sue state prisons |
| By Golden Dome News |
| Published: 08/02/2006 |
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CONCORD, NH - Twenty inmates are suing the state prison system, seeking to shorten their sentences or gain their immediate freedom. They claim prosecutors illegally break single crimes into multiple charges and that judges have imposed improper consecutive sentences since the 1970s. The Supreme Court recently accepted all their appeals and plans to act on them together as a matter of judicial economy. The cases reached that venue through eight different superior courts. If the state loses, the plaintiffs say hundreds of men and women who they believe have been wrongly incarcerated, some for decades, could be released. Attorney Richard Lehmann, the former legal counsel to the state Senate, is representing inmate Kenneth Violette of Manchester, an intervener in the case. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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