Earlier this week, the charges against Terese Grinnell were dropped. She’d been arrested for allegedly disrupting a public meeting. Yesterday the State dropped the charges on the six remaining defendants.
They were arrested in October of 2021, but it took the State 20 months to figure this out (emphasis mine).
In the statement, the Safety Department said prosecutors did not believe they could prove the cases beyond a reasonable doubt. The decision was reached after a “careful review of facts and evidence available to state police prosecutors,” the statement reads.
Careful review? There was a public video available on the day of the arrests. The only disruption was the Governor signaling the state police to scoop up what had to be a pre-determined list of individuals who were denied their right to attend and participate in an Executive Council Meeting. Arrested and publicly shamed by the media. Having to hire lawyers to defend themselves from a malicious government and its petty chief executive.
Twenty months.
We figured it out the moment we saw the video, as did thousands of other GraniteStaters. And it is no coincidence (in my mind, and many others) that the reason for the about-face, despite the AG saying (more or less) several weeks before that the State had no case, was Grinnell having Sununu served with a subpoena to testify at her hearing.
He’d have to lie under oath or (Gasp!) tell the truth, and nothing prevents the other six defendants from serving him.
Case closed.