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BRENTWOOD - Afraid that evidence about the victim's alleged drug use and gun ownership might "blacken" his reputation among jurors, prosecutors in the John "Jay" Brooks capital murder case have asked a judge to exclude it from trial, court documents show. Police found a small amount of marijuana inside Jack Reid's truck and trailer after he was killed on June 27, 2005. An unspecified number of guns were also found in his trailer, according to court records.
BRENTWOOD - Accused of capital murder, multimillionaire John "Jay" Brooks, 56, watched yesterday as potential jurors reported for his trial.
Attorney General Kelly Ayotte and her team have done something no other Attorney General's office in recent state history has done: convince two separate juries to find defendants guilty of capital murder.
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BRENTWOOD - The couple claims in the lawsuit that untrained town employees assigned as flag wavers caused a 30-foot tree branch to crash onto the roof and front windshield of their car in May 2008.
ANTRIM - Updated, 7:29 a.m. Flames shot 30 to 40 feet into the air as firefighters battled to put out a two-alarm blaze last night in a three-story building on Main Street. Fire crews are back on the scene this morning to put out flames that flared up again.
CONCORD - Southern New Hampshire Medical Center and Premier Medical Staffing Inc. are paying the U.S. government a total of $123,400 to resolve allegations they employed a nurse who was excluded from participating in federal health care programs.
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Two men who were state witnesses in the murder of Jack Reid of Derry will soon be facing a judge for their own roles in the June 2005 killing. Michael Benton, 33, formerly of Manchester, and Joseph Vrooman, 53 , of Las Vegas, will appear before a judge the same day in Rockingham County Superior Court on March 13.
Prosecutors state their case before the Supreme Court in a death sentence for killing a police officer.
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BRENTWOOD - Just moments before Jack Reid Sr. was bludgeoned to death, Robin Knight said he was well aware of what was about to happen, but did nothing to stop it, one of his alleged accomplices said. For the fastest updates during this trial, follow UnionLeader on Twitter.
Defense attorney Stephen T. Jeffco questions Michael Benton, 32, of Manchester, about how he used a sledgehammer to kill Jack Reid Sr. (TRENT SPINER)
BRENTWOOD - In a bit of courtroom drama, defense attorney Stephen T. Jeffco tried to discredit a key state witness in the Robin Knight murder-conspiracy trial.
BRENTWOOD - The accused murder conspirator will have been behind bars for 20 months by the time he faces trial in October.
BRENTWOOD - The superintendent of the Manchester jail says a plan by murder conspiracy suspect Jesse Brooks to take guards as hostages didn't get far. Officers put Brooks into lockdown and later transferred him back to Rockingham County.
BRENTWOOD - Defense witnesses tout positive aspects of the convicted murderer fighting for his life.
BRENTWOOD - Lawyers for convicted murder John A. Brooks requested a mistrial yesterday, claiming that a key witness violated a sequestration order.
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