The start of the criminal trial of indicted Supreme Court Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi -- scheduled to begin Sept. 2 -- has been delayed after prosecutors dropped their objection to a motion to continue filed last week by her defense team.

The delay -- a new start date had yet to be determined as of Thursday afternoon -- is expected to give time for Merrimack Superior Court Judge Martin P. Honigberg to rule on whether or not Attorney General John Formella will appear as a witness.

Attorneys for Hantz Marconi asked for the trial to be continued because the case “is not and cannot be ready for a fair trial on that date.”

“There are simply ‘too many moving parts’ and too many unresolved issues for this case to be fairly tried on September 2, 2025,” Hantz Marconi’s lawyer, R

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