EAMES v. RUDMAN

No. 7054.

115 N.H. 91 (1975)

JOHN B. EAMES, GRAFTON COUNTY ATTORNEY v. WARREN B. RUDMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

February 28, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Eames, by brief and orally, pro se.

Warren B. Rudman, attorney general, and Robert V. Johnson II, assistant attorney general (Mr. Johnson orally), for the defendant.


GRIMES, J.

The issue to be decided is whether the attorney general has authority to temporarily suspend the county attorney from exercising his criminal law enforcement authority because the county attorney has been arrested and charged with exhibiting certain allegedly obscene films. We hold that he has.

The facts are these. On June 28, 1974, the plaintiff, John B. Eames, was charged with two misdemeanors for exhibiting two allegedly obscene movies, "Deep...

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