KOSKI v. SAMAHA

No. 80-1452.

648 F.2d 790 (1981)

Norma A. KOSKI, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Unwar J. SAMAHA, Clerk, Rockingham County Superior Court, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald J. Perrault, Claremont, N. H., Atty., with whom Gregory H. Smith, Acting Atty. Gen., and Brian T. Tucker, Concord, N. H., Atty., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Benjamin Hiller, Cambridge, Mass., by appointment of the court, for plaintiff, appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, PELL and LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

The Attorney General of New Hampshire brings this appeal from the district court's grant of habeas corpus1 to Norma A. Koski, freeing her from a state conviction for criminal trespass.

I.

New Hampshire has a two-tiered system for criminal trials, not unlike that described in Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104, 92 S.Ct. 1953, 32 L.Ed.2d 584 ...

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