SHEEDY v. MERRIMACK CTY. SUPER. CT.

No. 83-472.

128 N.H. 51 (1986)

SEAN D. SHEEDY v. MERRIMACK COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT AND MERRIMACK COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

May 9, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiggin & Nourie, of Manchester (Edward L. Cross on the brief and orally), for the petitioner.

Stephen E. Merrill, attorney general (Robert B. Muh, assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the respondents.

New Hampshire Legal Assistance, of Concord (Michael A. Fuerst on the brief), and the Family & Housing Law Clinic of the Franklin Pierce Law Center, of Concord, by brief for Cheryl Bolduc, Teal Grammo, and the Family & Housing Law Clinic, as amici curiae.


KING, C.J.

In November 1983 the Superior Court (Goode, J.) found the petitioner, Sean Sheedy, in civil contempt and ordered him incarcerated in the Merrimack County House of Correction. In his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in this court, the petitioner alleges that procedural errors at his contempt and show cause hearings violated the provisions of RSA 524:6-a (Supp. 1985) and denied him due process of...

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