SLEEPER v. WARDEN, NH STATE PRISON

No. 2006-150.

920 A.2d 1200 (2007)

Lawrence SLEEPER v. WARDEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE PRISON.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Opinion Issued: April 5, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly A. Ayotte, attorney general (Nicholas Cort, assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the petitioner.

Law Office of Joshua L. Gordon, of Concord (Joshua L. Gordon, on the brief and orally), for the respondent.


DUGGAN, J.

The State appeals an order of the Superior Court (Brennan, J.) granting a writ of habeas corpus to the petitioner, Lawrence Sleeper. We reverse.

Sleeper was convicted after a jury trial in Superior Court (Fitzgerald, J.) of several charges of aggravated felonious sexual assault and felonious sexual assault. The evidence at trial consisted of the testimony of the two juvenile victims and Sleeper, who testified on his own behalf and...

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