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Armando Barron Found Guilty Of Murder
Court To Decide Congressional District Map
Although inflation and high gas prices may stifle some of the tourism that state officials are anticipating to begin this weekend, they project there will be 4.6 million people visiting New Hampshire this season, an increase from 4.4 million in 2021.
They project that the reopened Canadian border will boost tourism after it having been closed for most of last summer.
Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs, said New Hampshire has been setting tourism records since 2020. This summer’s visitors could spend more than $2 billion in New Hampshire, with targeted advertising helping to encourage more visitors to come to the state — and perhaps decide to remain here.
Armando Barron Found Guilty Of Murder
After four hours of deliberations on May 26, the jury in the Armando Barron murder case found him guilty of luring 25-year-old Joseph Amerault to Annett Wayside Park in Rindge, beating and stomping on him, and then shooting him three times. Barron, 32, then forced his wife, Britany, 33, to drive four hours to a remote camping site in Coos County where he ordered her to cut off Amerault’s head.
Defense attorney Meredith Lugo used her closing argument in Cheshire County Superior Court to suggest that it was Britany who murdered Amerault but then lied about it so she could stay out of jail.
Armando Barron had admitted at the start of the trial that he beat both his wife and Amerault, but he denied killing the man.
Court To Decide Congressional District Map
On the last day of New Hampshire’s legislative session, Concord passed a Republican-backed congressional redistricting map that citizens at every public hearing had opposed. Governor Chris Sununu immediately said he will veto the bill.
“The citizens of New Hampshire will not accept this map, which moves both members of Congress into the same district. Our races have to be fair, which is why I will veto this map,” Sununu said.
A gubernatorial veto would leave the final map in the hands of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, which has appointed a special master to recommend a redistricting plan should there be no legislative plan in place. The court is expected to release its special master’s map that makes the least number of changes to the congressional districts sometime today.
Representative Ross Berry (R-Manchester), author of the legislature’s map, said, “It would now appear that the Governor’s intent is to have maps resolved by the court, and it could be reasoned that this was his position all along. This is his prerogative, and it is unfortunate because this process does not convey a sense of working together in good faith. He will now be solely responsible for circumventing the people’s elected representatives and sending this process to bureaucrats appointed by unelected courts who are not accountable to the people.”
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