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In the weeks before the high-profile murder of Marisol Fuentes-Huaracha in July, New Hampshire courts and police officers failed multiple opportunities to intervene, a new Judicial Branch review has concluded.

A court magistrate released Michael Gleason Jr., Fuentes-Huaracha’s husband, on $5,000 bail despite credible allegations by Fuentes-Huaracha that he posed a danger to her. A circuit court judge affirmed that bail decision. The court did not revisit its bail decision even as more information came to light about Gleason’s troubling pattern of behavior. And despite four separate orders requiring Gleason to relinquish hi

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