State v. Woodard

The defendant, Lawrence Woodard, was convicted of first-degree assault in the Merrimack County Superior Court on November 6, 1980. The Trial Court (Batchelder, J.) sentenced him to not more than thirty years nor less than ten years in the New Hampshire State Prison. The defendant appeals, alleging that the trial judge erred in not granting a mistrial on the grounds that the defendant was prejudiced by being restrained in handcuffs and leg irons during trial; that the trial judge’s decision not to admit certain letters written by the defendant to his girlfriend constituted reversible error;…