NH HARMONY MONTGOMERY: Missing from Manchester, NH - Nov/Dec 2019 (Reported December 2021) - Age 5 *OVERTURNED*

Girl last seen in Manchester in October 2019; police seek tips from public

Manchester police said they are "begging" for tips from the public about the disappearance of a girl not seen in more than two years.

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Girl last seen in Manchester in October 2019; police seek tips from public​

Manchester police are seeking tips from the public about the disappearance of a girl not seen in more than two years.

Harmony Montgomery, 7, was last seen in a home in Manchester in October 2019, when she was 5, police said.

Police said they first learned Harmony went missing earlier this week. Chief Allen Aldenberg did not specify who reported the girl missing but said his department has been in touch with multiple family members and will continue to speak with them.

Aldenberg said police are not searching for any adult or vehicle in connection with the case. Investigators are focusing on the whereabouts of Harmony.

"No time is a good time for a child to go missing," Aldenberg said. "I'm begging the community. I don't care if you saw this young girl a year ago and you think it's irrelevant. Call us."

Aldenberg said at a news conference Friday his detectives are working to confirm where Harmony is from and where she went to school before her disappearance.

Harmony is estimated to be approximately 4 feet tall and 50 pounds. Investigators said she has blonde hair, blue eyes and should be wearing glasses.

"We need help," Aldenberg said. "This remains a very active investigation."


MEDIA - HARMONY MONTGOMERY: Missing from Manchester, NH since October 2019 (Reported December 2021) - Age 5

 

[Kimster]

They've already said this case is going back to trial AND the scum isn't able to get out of jail due to other charges.





“Adam Montgomery remains convicted of multiple serious felonies arising from Harmony's death, as well as separate firearms offenses that were previously upheld on appeal. Montgomery’s total sentence of 43.5 years for these additional charges stands and is not affected by the Court’s decision today.”

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Fair for WHO, may I ask?

“What the court said is that the trial should have been handled differently, and specifically the court said the strength of the assault charge, where there were multiple witnesses, who each corroborated each other, the jurors could have improperly relied on the strength of that charge to bolster the way that they looked at Adam with respect to the murder charge, where the only real evidence that he was the one who killed Harmony was the testimony of Kayla Montgomery," O'Neill said.

Attorney Pamela Phelan, who argued the case before the Supreme Court on Montgomery's behalf, praised the decision.

"The court's decision addresses important aspects of a fair trial," Phelan said in a statement provided to News 9. "Justice is only served when we provide a person accused of a crime a fair and just trial. A trial that is not conducted with those principles in mind does not do justice to persons accused of a crime or people who are victims of crimes."

New Hampshire Supreme Court overturns Adam Montgomery's second-degree murder conviction

The New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed the second-degree murder conviction for Adam Montgomery on Thursday morning.

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So, because he was also charged with assault and had witnesses attest to that, that makes it unfair for his murder charge?
Right.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Prosecutors ask NH Supreme Court to reinstate Adam Montgomery's conviction

The N.H. Supreme Court previously overturned Adam Montgomery's murder conviction after finding his charges were improperly joined.

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Prosecutors ask NH Supreme Court to reinstate Adam Montgomery’s conviction​

Prosecutors have filed a new motion urging New Hampshire’s highest court to reconsider its decision to overturn a man’s conviction for murdering his daughter.

Earlier this month, the New Hampshire Supreme Court overturned the second-degree murder conviction, finding that a judge had improperly joined the cases for assault and murder. Now, prosecutors say the justices got the law wrong when they issued that opinion.

First, the motion points out that the defendant initially requested that the charges be joined. It wasn’t until after prosecutors alerted Adam Montgomery that his wife, Kayla Montgomery, had changed her story and was willing to testify against him that he changed his mind and wanted the trials to be separate. Conceding that the defense has a right to ask for the charges to be severed even after requesting they be joined, prosecutors argue in their motion that the defendant’s “initial strategic decision to join those charges for trial constitutes strong evidence that joinder remains reasonable and not untenable or unreasonable to the prejudice of the defendant’s case, particularly where the state of the evidence had not changed.”

The state also argues in its motion that the justices erred when they considered the full trial record before authoring their opinion. Under the law, the motion argues, the justices should review only the evidence that existed before the court when the motions were decided. Because the motion to sever was never renewed at trial, prosecutors say, the full trial record should not be considered. “By reviewing the evidentiary trial record to determine whether the trial court struck that balance reasonably prior to trial, this Court departed from the established standard of review and, instead of reviewing for an unsustainable exercise of discretion, engaged in a different exercise of discretion.”

Prosecutors bristled at the suggestion in the justices’ opinion that their murder case was “substantially weaker” than the assault case because it was built on Kayla Montgomery’s eyewitness testimony. “Evaluating witness credibility, resolving conflicts in testimony, and deciding the weight to be given to trial evidence are matters exclusively within the province of the jury,” the motion says.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

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What happens to Harmony Montgomery’s father after overturned murder conviction?​

When the New Hampshire Supreme Court overturned his conviction in June, they said an assault charge Montgomery received for hitting Harmony in July 2019 and the murder charge for her killing in December 2019 should not have been tried together, which they said deprived him of a fair trial.

Criminal defense attorney Alexandra Kazarian spoke with NewsNation’s Brian Entin and said the overturned conviction is what should have happened in the first place and was shocked the ruling came from a high court.

“I understand that people feel like a conviction equals justice, but really it’s the end of the process that brings the justice, and the jury’s decision, whatever it is, as long as it was gotten fairly, is the justice,” Kazarian said.

Kazarian added in some cases, there is evidence that should not be added to a trial, and that is ultimately what happened during Montgomery’s trial when evidence of his abuse of Harmony long before her death was brought up in trial.

“Putting him on trial for that at the same time he is on trial for murder, there’s not really a lot of evidence as to how she actually died, and I find that to be problematic,” Kazarian said. “It just leads the jury to believe ‘well he’s a terrible person over here, so he must have been a terrible person over here,’ so it’s very easy for the jury to believe that a person was capable of doing something terrible.”

“That’s not how we’re supposed to get convictions,” Kazarian continued.



What could happen to Adam Montgomery next is that a retrial could start, but so far, the state’s Justice Department said it does not have plans to pursue that.

If he were freed from prison, Montgomery would be returned to a pre-conviction status, meaning they are entitled to release or bond, depending on whether prosecutors decide to drop the charges or retry the case.

Montgomery will not be freed from prison in light of the murder conviction being overturned, however, as he is serving a sentence for unrelated gun crimes and additional prison time for the July 2019 assault charge, which was not overturned.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I'm sorry. I fail to see how charges of assaulting the SAME person you're accused of killing just months later are unrelated.

So now that he's been separately convicted on the assault charge, if they do retry him, they won't be able to mention that he was found GUILTY of assaulting his daughter mere months before she "disappeared"?

Also, no current plans to retry him anyway. He's behind bars for ~40 years. So I guess they could wait for more evidence, her remains being found, etc.

 

[Guess Who]

I'm sorry. I fail to see how charges of assaulting the SAME person you're accused of killing just months later are unrelated.

So now that he's been separately convicted on the assault charge, if they do retry him, they won't be able to mention that he was found GUILTY of assaulting his daughter mere months before she "disappeared"?

Also, no current plans to retry him anyway. He's behind bars for ~40 years. So I guess they could wait for more evidence, her remains being found, etc.

I don't get it either. At least he's not free though.