This week began for Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi with the announcement that she intended to enter into a plea deal on allegations she used her stature to try to score political favor on behalf of her husband. By Thursday, she learned that she would regain her law license and have her seat on the state’s highest court reinstated.

Hantz Marconi’s plea agreement this week ended a year-long criminal case that was scheduled for trial in November. She was accused by the New Hampshire Department of Justice of criminal solicitation, stemming from a private conservation she had with then-Gov. Chris Sununu in his office last June.

Under the terms of the plea, Hantz Marconi paid a $1,200 fine and avoided jail time. She didn’t admit her guilt, but didn’t dispute that the stat

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