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New Hampshire Law on Cold Cases

By Steve Hall

New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald reports, "New law compensates 'cold case' victims," written by Patrick Cronin.  Here's the beginning of the article:Rep. Renny Cushing said he saw one shortcoming in the bill signed into law last year establishing for the first time in the state's history a Cold Case Unit assigned to work exclusively on unsolved murder cases.The Democratic state representative from Hampton said the bill didn't address the needs of surviving victims who may be traumatized by the reopening of an investigation into their loved ones death. That is why he sponsored a bill, which became law three weeks ago, that allows family of cold case homicides to be eligible for victim compensation regardless of the date of the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).