CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire Supreme Court justice pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor Tuesday after facing charges that she tried to interfere with a criminal investigation into her husband who ran the state’s division of ports and harbors.

State Supreme Court Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi was indicted in October 2024 by a Merrimack County grand jury for two felonies and five misdemeanors. Under a plea deal approved by a judge on Tuesday, those charges were dismissed, and Marconi pleaded no contest to criminal solicitation of misuse of position, which is a misdemeanor.

Marconi had been accused of soliciting then-Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to influence the attorney general’s investigation into her husband, telling him that the investigation was the result of “per

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