Why do I support the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society?

March 31st, 2024
Why Support the NH Supreme Court Society? As a lawyer that focuses on only a couple practice areas, one of which is Appellate Litigation, I support the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society because I strongly support its underlying values and goals: to… Read More

Ted Lothstein presenting at CLE By the Sea

July 13th, 2023
Ted Serving as Faculty for Newburyport Continuing Legal Education Seminar On July 20, 2023, Ted Lothstein will be a faculty member at the annual “CLE By the Sea” in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Topic: Evolving Judicial Attitudes Towards Ra… Read More

Plymouth State's Contempt for Free Speech Rights Now National News

September 26th, 2018
PSU’S SHAME A while back on this page, I wrote about the disgraceful actions of Plymouth State University in shaming and punishing faculty members for exercising their fundamental constitutional right to freedom of speech, freedom of thought, a… Read More

DWI Checkpoints Coming to Portsmouth this Week

August 8th, 2016
How much does a night out on the town in Portsmouth cost these days? This week, it may cost many thousands of dollars. The NH State Police have announced that they will be using federal funds to conduct a DWI Roadblock somewhere in the Portsmouth are… Read More

Legislature Eliminates Captured Sample Requirement

June 27th, 2016
The Governor has signed Senate Bill 379, which eliminates the long-standing requirement that Intoxilyzer breath testing machines in police departments capture a preserved sample of the subject’s breath. For decades, our clients have sent these… Read More

US Supreme Court Says No to Suspicionless Detentions

April 21st, 2015
In an important decision today, a 6-3 majority of the United States Supreme Court held that a police officer must release a motorist after the officer has resolved the underlying purpose of the motor vehicle stop. Rodriguez v. United States (US Supre… Read More

Marijuana Laws in New Hampshire

December 1st, 2014
John Maher: I am John Maher, and I’m here today with Ted Lothstein with the law office of Lothstein Guerriero with offices in Concord and Keene, New Hampshire. Lothstein Guerriero represents people charged with crime around the state New Hampsh… Read More

Protecting our Right to Privacy: Attorneys make use of both the Federal and New Hampshire’s Constitution

August 13th, 2014
Which protects us more – the New Hampshire Constitution, or the Federal Constitution? Both Constitutions go back to the founding days of our nation. The NH Constitution came first, ratified in 1784. The Bill of Rights to the United States Const… Read More

FBI distributes child pornography to ensnare website visitors

May 30th, 2013
Can it be true that our own government is now in the business of selling child porn on the web? Most people would not be surprised to learn that the FBI, with judicial authorization, can seize and shut down a child pornography website. After all, chi… Read More

NH Supreme Court - Narrows Scope of Exclusionary Rule

September 18th, 2012
04/22/2008. Court Narrows Scope of the Exclusionary Rule. State v. Joseph Panarello, No. 2007-554 (2008). This decision resolves a classic conundrum regarding the scope of the exclusionary rule. When the police violate someone’s constitutional… Read More