Verdict in Dodds Case (ex NH congressional candidate)

[SoxFan]

Source: NH Union Leader

Dover – Former congressional candidate Gary Dodds was convicted of three criminal charges — a felony and two misdemeanors — for staging an April 5, 2006, car crash on the Spaulding Turnpike and his subsequent disappearance.

Dodds faces three-and-a-half to seven years in prison for the most serious conviction, falsifying physical evidence, as well as an additional year for each for the misdemeanors, conduct after an accident and false public alarms.

By convicting on all three charges, jurors made clear that they believe Dodds was not in the woods for 27 hours following the crash as he claimed, but rather somewhere much warmer soaking his feet in cold water to fake his injuries.

Prosecutors said throughout the trial the entire ordeal was supposed to be used to whip up support for his nascent congressional campaign, but the ruse turned went awry.



Read more: http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=VERDICT+IN+DODDS+CASE&articleId=2818cd09-c1a2-4313-8fee-1ca346dc894e

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Putz.

I was running in the same primary at the time Dodds went missing (I dropped out later). The three of us who were also running in the Democratic race were very careful to offer words of support to Gary and his family. I hope they sieze his snazzy half million dollar property in downtown Portsmouth.

[f the letter]

1. What a bizarre story this whole thing is.

Very strange attention play

[DCKit]

2. Don't try to analyze it or you'll go nuts too. n/t