Prosecutors are finding themselves going back to an 8-year-old Littleton murder case

As they have their hands full with new cases, prosecutors at the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office are finding themselves going back to an 8-year-old Littleton murder case as the killer continues to file motions in a bid to withdraw his guilty pleas. In May, a Grafton Superior Court judge rejected the latest attempt by Damion Yeargle, 29, who, on June 27, responded with a second motion asking the court to reconsider. On July 1, NHAG prosecutors filed an objection and told the court that Yeargle had not been sending copies of his motions to their office, as required by law. “The defendant continues to voluntarily choose to not send copies of his pleadings to the State,” wrote Benjamin Agati, senior assistant attorney general with the Criminal Justice Bureau. “Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(c) requires all pleadings to be ‘mailed first class or delivered to all opposing counsel,’ and the defendant has not done so for any of his 2024 pleadings with this Court.” The Superior Court informed the NHAG of the motions filed by Yeargle, who is seeking to take the case to a jury trial and is currently entering the seventh year of a New Hampshire State Prison sentence of 36 to 72 years.