Indicted Supreme Court Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has reached a fully negotiated plea deal with prosecutors and is expected to plead "no contest" to a misdemeanor in connection to allegedly misusing her position in a criminal investigation against her husband.

The deal calls for Hantz Marconi, of Stratham, to make the plea to a single charge of criminal solicitation, a Class B misdemeanor, according to court documents.

The change of plea comes as Hantz Marconi was set to go to trial next month.

Hantz Marconi was indicted by a Merrimack County grand jury on two felony charges — attempt to commit improper influence and criminal solicitation of improper influence — after she allegedly interfered with a criminal investigation involving her husband, Geno Marconi, director o

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