Defense attorney Michael Connolly (left) confers with his client, businessman Richard Rosen during a recess May 23, 2024, in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill. Rosen was charged with voting in two different states in the 2016 general election. (LISA D. CONNELL FILE PHOTO)
Defense attorney Michael Connolly (left) confers with his client, businessman Richard Rosen during a recess May 23, 2024, in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill. Rosen was charged with voting in two different states in the 2016 general election. (LISA D. CONNELL FILE PHOTO)
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Supreme Court on April 9 overturned businessman Richard Rosen’s illegal voting conviction, ruling the trial court judge was wrong to suppress evidence that another man confessed to casting the illegal vote.
Rosen, 87, was found guilty of a class B felony in May 2024 for allegedly voting in the 2016 general election in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. But the Supreme Court ruled Grafton Superior Court Judge Lawrence MacLeod erred by not allowing jurors to know that Rosen’s Massachusetts groundskeeper, Billy Botelho, confessed to investigators that he had voted in Rosen’s name.
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