Still catching up on a few things and hopefully, this post will catch up on all the details of this saga until the actual court hearing happens. Last time, it was set for November 29 and I arrived at Laconia District Court ready to video the proceedings (set for a 1/2 hour).
When I went to register with the Clerk of Court, I was told that the hearing was off and that it had been continued. As I said in that previous post…
Sidenote: you can see the previous posts on this by clicking here).
…he had lawyered up. Turns out that he hired Seth Hipple of Martin & Hipple to be his legal counsel. It also turned out that Hipple couldn’t attend and had filed earlier (back on 11/23/22) for a continuance as he could not attend. So, hiring a lawyer for a single hearing that can’t attend and has to push out the hearing date is a legal strategy?
Apparently, with no other information, it is. This:
Notice of Hearing on Stalking Petition 2022-11-08 Golter v Lambert for 2022-11-29 Laconia District Court
And this:
Defendant Motion to continue Stalking Petition 2022-11-23 Golter v Lambert via Lambert Lawyer Seth Hipple Doc 1 Laconia District Court
And now, it has been pushed out even further:
Lambert lawyer Seth Hipple request of Continuence Stalking Petition 2022-11-23 Golter v Lambert Granted for 2022-12-29 Laconia District Court
So, a stalling game – from 11/23 to 11/29 to 12/27? Look, I know that the Court system is still short-staffed and still trying to dig out from the COVID mess of a schedule that accumulated. I also realize that this is the Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year’s season which makes scheduling just that much harder. So who is doing the stalling? Is it Seth Hipple, the lawyer, or Lambert himself? I can think of several reasons why the latter might, though.
UPDATE: as I was typing this up, another delay by Lambert:
Now, I’m no lawyer and have very little contact with the judicial system so I have no idea if this is par for the course in our neck of the woods or not But it does seem rather…different.
So the reason behind getting the Restraining/Stalking Order still exists – just not the order itself. So why (or by whom, I guess, is the better question) is this hearing being delayed again?
