LACONIA — Belknap Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Leonard dismissed one of nine charges leveled against Hassan Sapry, and affirmed two others, during his second trial on Tuesday afternoon.

Tuesday morning, during the first day of testimony by defense witnesses, attorney Mark Sisti asked Leonard to dismiss first- and second-degree murder charges against Sapry, 27, who is accused in the 2019 killing of Wilfred Gumzan Sr. in Guzman Sr.'s Blueberry Lane apartment.

Sisti, who along with Amy Ashworth is defending Sapry, asked Leonard to dismiss a charge of falsifying physical evidence, as well.

Leonard dismissed the evidence charge, pertaining to a cell phone owned by Guzman Sr. which Sapry apparently threw into Lake Winnisquam following the killing. She denied the motions to dismiss the two m

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