Canterbury, New Hampshire: What if Canterbury [police] chief [John LaRoche] was a teacher?

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Letter: What if Canterbury chief was a teacher?

I read the article titled “Former Canterbury chief LaRoche found not guilty of sex assault” (Monitor front page, June 29) and found many things wrong with this verdict. If instead of “police officer” it read “high school teacher,” would the outcome have been even close to the same? The high school teacher saying “We had consensual contact on at least two occasions, and maybe two more times in the locker room” would have convicted the teacher. But LaRoche – “who was arrested in August, admitted to two of the encounters and said the other two, inside the old headquarters, might ...

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http://www.concordmonitor.com/Problems-with-verdict-in-Canterbury-N-H-police-chief-case-3312547