The New Hampshire Attorney General has filed an appearance and motion on behalf of Circuit Court Administrative Judge Edwin Kelley and Superior Court Chief Judge Tina Nadeau. The motion is to “quash” the subpoenas that they have been served with by the Merrimack County Sheriffs Department which require them to appear as witnesses in State v. Jason Talley.
From the motion:
6. The Defendant has copies of the three orders at issue. If the trial court deems the orders themselves relevant and admissible evidence, they can be admitted as trial exhibits by the proferring party. Testimony from judges regarding their mental process leading up to the issuance of their orders, however, is prohibited and properly excluded.
I have alleged (and personally complained to the Attorney Generals Office directly) that these court orders were enacted specifically to cover for Keene Circuit Court-District Division Presiding Judge Edward Burke who had been caught on camera telling a lie to have someone falsely arrested. I could be arrested for the same thing that Judge Burke should be arrested for, were I fabricating information to the Attorney General for investigation.
The appearance and motion filed by Associate Attorney General Richard Head is here.
When you read it…Â please contrast it with these two articles from the New Hampshire Constitution:
[Art.] 8. [Accountability of Magistrates and Officers; Public’s Right to Know.] All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive. To that end, the public’s right of access to governmental proceedings and records shall not be unreasonably restricted.
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
