NHDefender Blog

Last week, Ted Lothstein was up in Grafton County Superior Court for a jury trial that was supposed to last four days – but ended unexpectedly with a mistrial on the second day. Ethical rules prohibit lawyers from making public statements about… Read More

Firm Wins NH Supreme Court Appeal. On March 30, 2023, in State v. Tufano, an appeal case handled by Ted Lothstein, the NH Supreme Court reversed a conviction for cruelty to animals arising out of a very unusual fact pattern. The accused was seen by n… Read More

Convictions reversed. On March 23, 2023, the New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed the domestic violence convictions of former state senator Jeffrey Woodburn. The Court held that the trial judge refused to allow the jury to consider Woodburn’s c… Read More

Firm partners Richard Guerriero and Ted Lothstein spent the last four weeks in the Hillsborough Superior Court-North in Manchester, trying a first degree murder case that took four days of jury selection, 14 days of evidence and argument, and two day… Read More

“In bed with” – not just a colloquial phrase anymore Sometimes, the cynical among us will say something like, “the judge and and the prosecutor are in bed together,” to express frustration if too many rulings seem to go… Read More

Prosecutor Works to Cover-Up Wrongdoing Disgraced forensic lab chemist Sonja Farak used the seized drug evidence herself, and then fabricated test results that were used in criminal prosecutions to convict and incarcerate scores of people. Thousands… Read More

The NH Bar Association The NH Bar Association is a mandatory Bar that counts all NH attorneys as its members, as well as many attorneys in neighboring States who occasionally practice in NH. It provides many valuable services to NH Bar members, inclu… Read More

Last month, all 3 of the firm’s lawyers co-authored an article in the NH Bar News about defending alleged domestic violence cases. The article is available online, and appeared in the print edition of the Bar News which is mailed to every singl… Read More