CONCORD — Former State Senator Jeffrey Woodburn is appealing his conviction in his domestic violence case to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
Woodburn, 56, a Whitefield Democrat, is asking the state’s high court to rule that Coos County Superior Court Judge Peter Bornstein erred in refusing to allow him to argue self-defense.
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