Criminal Justice

New Hampshire recently upped the amount that lawyers can get paid when they take on cases where defendants can't afford an attorney. It's one way to address the shortage of lawyers willing to accept these cases.

Jason Carroll has spent more than 30 years in prison claiming innocence in the murder of Sharon Johnson. Now, he could be one step closer to proving it.

Michael Mowry III was killed in an apparent home invasion and robbery inside his apartment on Labor Day weekend in 2020.

A new bail reform bill is heading to Gov. Chris Sununu’s desk.

Pamela Smart, 56, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a 15-year-old boy who later fatally shot her husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry, New Hampshire, in 1990.

Kyle Hendrickson posted a video of himself holding a gun in the school parking lot last April. He will serve 37 months in federal prison.

A Keene resident and his wife were taken into custody Wednesday for allegedly creating and posting illicit photos of minors on the dark web.

A jury on Monday found 27-year-old Logan Clegg guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of Stephen and Djeswende Reid in April 2022.

Logan Clegg, 27, is charged with second-degree murder for what prosecutors described as "knowingly and recklessly" causing the deaths of Stephen and Djeswende "Wendy" Reid.

Logan Clegg, who was living in the woods near the apartment of Stephen and Wendy Reid, is accused of shooting the couple last year on a nearby hiking trail.