Their current state motto is “Live Free or Die”. But since recent court rulings in New Hampshire have eliminated the “Live Free” choice, it appears that dying is the only choice remaining to citizens of New Hampshire.
I’ve previously mentioned the Gannon case in Nashua, where police charged a man with violating the state wiretapping laws through the normal use of his own security camera (despite a posted warning). Despite all charges being dropped, the police refuse to return his tapes.
Now the state Supreme Court has ruled that the police may keep or destroy seized property they claim to be contraband, even if they fail to prove such an assertion in court. In 2003 the police arrested Michael Cohen, owner of a record store in Concord, and seized 500 CDs they claimed were illegally copied. The police dropped six of seven charges, and Cohen was found not guilty of the seventh charge. Yet the police refused to return the CDs, and now the state Supreme Court has ruled that they do not have to return them.
New Hampshire needs a new state motto
Their current state motto is “Live Free or Die”. But since recent court rulings in New Hampshire have eliminated the “Live Free” choice, it appears that dying is the only choice remaining to citizens of New Hampshire.
I’ve previously mentioned the Gannon case in Nashua, where police charged a man with violating the state wiretapping laws through the normal use of his own security camera (despite a posted warning). Despite all charges being dropped, the police refuse to return his tapes.
Now the state Supreme Court has ruled that the police may keep or destroy seized property they claim to be contraband, even if they fail to prove such an assertion in court. In 2003 the police arrested Michael Cohen, owner of a record store in Concord, and seized 500 CDs they claimed were illegally copied. The police dropped six of seven charges, and Cohen was found not guilty of the seventh charge. Yet the police refused to return the CDs, and now the state Supreme Court has ruled that they do not have to return them.