The Supreme Court of New Hampshire affirmed the superior court’s denial of a hearing on the defendant’s petition for sentence suspension, holding that the court acted within its discretion under the amended Rule 58 and that Yancey does not require an evidentiary hearing.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire, 1993
Published opinions from 1993. The case name opens the case page.
1993 opinions
New HampshireDeanna Walls v. Oxford Management Company, Inc. and Nashua-Oxford Bay Associates Limited Partnership
November 4, 1993137 N.H. 653
The court answered both certified questions in the negative. New Hampshire law imposes no general duty on landlords to protect tenants from criminal attacks, but a duty may arise from a known defective condition that foreseeably increases the risk of attack or from a landlord's undertaking to provide security.
The court reversed the defendant’s convictions because the State’s psychologist was not sufficiently reliable to testify that the child victims had been sexually abused. It held that expert testimony may explain behavioral characteristics of child-abuse victims to assist the jury in evaluating credibility, but may not…
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire affirmed two consolidated superior court rulings in this divorce matter. It rejected the defendant's due process challenge to a decree provision confining the parties to a fifty-mile radius of Concord because the trial court simply adopted the identical provision the defendant…