STATE v. STEWART

No. 95-884.

142 N.H. 610 (1998)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. WILLIAM J. STEWART

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

February 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip T. McLaughlin, attorney general (John A. Stephen, assistant attorney general, on the brief, and Janice K. Rundles, senior assistant attorney general, orally), for the State.

John P. Newman, assistant appellate defender, of Concord, by brief and orally, for the defendant.


JOHNSON, J.

The defendant, William J. Stewart, was convicted in Superior Court (O'Neill, J.) of criminal contempt for violating a protective order issued by the Northern Carroll County District Court. On appeal, he claims that the New Hampshire courts lacked territorial jurisdiction because the acts comprising the contempt charge occurred in Maine. We affirm.

The following facts were adduced at trial. In October 1993, the district court issued a protective...

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