STATE v. HEATH

No. 86-299.

129 N.H. 102 (1986)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. WILLIAM P. HEATH

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 31, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Merrill, attorney general (Barbara R. Keshen, assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the State.

Bell, Falk & Norton P.A., of Keene (Theodore H. Parent on the brief and orally), for the defendant.

Runyon and Sweeney P.A., of Peterborough (Walter H. Sweeney on the brief and orally), for Robert M. Grovenstein, as amicus curiae.


SOUTER, J.

This is an interlocutory appeal under Supreme Court Rule 8, although the case comes to us as a transfer by the Superior Court (DiClerico, J.) of four questions prompted by statutory enactments affecting the right of a criminal defendant to depose a young victim or witness. See RSA 517:13 (Supp. 1986) and :13-a (Supp. 1986). The questions and our answers will be understood best in light of the relevant facts and statutory history.

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