Breaking News: Linda Horan’s lawyer asks Supreme Court to dismiss AG appeal

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Linda Horan is pictured after a hearing in Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord flanked by friends and her attorney, Paul Twomey, at right. Horan died Feb. 1
Linda Horan is pictured after a hearing in Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord flanked by friends and her attorney, Paul Twomey, at right. Horan died Feb. 1

 

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The attorney who represented Linda Horan in her lawsuit to obtain a medical marijuana ID card before she died has asked the state Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal the attorney general filed in the case.

Paul Twomey, who represented Horan for free, on Feb. 16 asked the high court to dismiss the state’s appeal “because Horan died leaving no representative to take any steps in the case.”

“They have nobody on the other side of the case,” Twomey said. “You can’t have a case without two parties in New Hampshire.”

The appeal also raised questions that weren’t litigated in Superior Court as to whether Horan could possess marijuana in New Hampshire or purchase it in Maine, Twomey said.

The attorney general can’t legally seek an advisory opinion from the Supreme Court, he said.

Click here to read the full breaking-news story on InDepthNH.org including Twomey’s letter to the Supreme Court and the full letter of appeal.


 

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