Supreme Court of New Hampshire, 2019

The Supreme Court of New Hampshire held that RSA 597:2 permits a trial court to set bail at an amount the defendant cannot afford when the court, by a preponderance of the evidence, finds the defendant to be a flight risk, and that the statute’s provisions prohibiting detention solely on financial condition and…

The court affirmed an order requiring the sale and equitable division of jointly owned property. It held that the superior court had concurrent jurisdiction because the partition claim was only tangentially related to the decedent's estate, and that the claim was not barred by res judicata, laches, or the availability…