US EditionNH Supreme Court orders lower court to examine key evidence in case of murdered Concord couple
The court ruled police violated constitutional rights by obtaining warrantless cellphone data months after murders, ordering a lower court to reassess evidence admissibility by mid-June.
- On March 17, the New Hampshire Supreme Court vacated a key component of Logan LaVar Clegg’s case and ordered a review, citing warrantless cellphone data collection issues.
- Concord detectives requested cellphone location data without a warrant, invoking Verizon’s emergency protocols and citing a 56-hour flight risk, but the court noted a five-month lapse since the April 2022 killings weakens the exigency claim.
- Detectives made three warrantless requests and tracked 15‑minute pings, leading to Clegg’s October 2022 arrest at South Burlington Library where authorities found a 9 mm handgun, fake Romanian passport, and $7,000.
- The New Hampshire Supreme Court ordered the trial court to test admissibility under the inevitable discovery doctrine, which could limit prosecutors' evidence in any retrial of Logan LaVar Clegg.
- The Merrimack County Superior Court must hold further proceedings and report findings by June 15, and the office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said 'We are reviewing the Supreme Court's decision and will take appropriate action'.
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Double murderer from Vermont may get new trial over cell phone snafu
By Alex Nuti-de Biasi, for the Journal-Opinion The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled that police improperly obtained cell phone location data for Logan Clegg during a search for the suspect in a 2022 double murder in Concord, New Hampshire. Logan Clegg was convicted of killing Steven and Wendy Reid in April 2022. Police searched for months for the killer before Clegg was arrested in Vermont in October 2022 after authorities tracked him dow…
NH Supreme Court says warrantless search in double murder was unconstitutional
New Hampshire’s highest court says police acted unconstitutionally in the way they tracked down a man later convicted of a double murder in Concord. Logan Clegg was sentenced to at least 100 years in prison for the murders of Stephen and Djeswende Reid. The couple were shot to death on a hiking trail in April of 2022. In October of that year, Concord police found Clegg’s phone number after police in Utah told the department that he had booked a …
NH Supreme Court Rejects Warrantless Search in Reids’ Murders
By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org Concord Police violated the state Constitution when they pushed to save time and get Logan Clegg’s cellphone data from Verizon without a warrant, a unanimous New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. “It is unreasonable that any individual’s freedom from governmental intrusion might be curtailed by virtue of how long it may or may not take a third party to respond to a warrant,” the justices wrote. Clegg is servi…
N.H. Supreme Court rejects warrantless cellphone ping that led investigators to Logan Clegg in 2022 double murder - The Boston Globe
The unanimous decision reopens a core question about the evidence that led to Clegg being convicted and sentenced to at least 100 years in prison.
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