The Supreme Court or NH Governor just re appointed a Martial Master to be a member of the GAL Board that the Redress Grievance Committee made a FOUNDED ruling that this Martial Master allowed a GAL to commit perjury during a NH case.
You are aware by now that the House Redress of Grievance petition #14 has FOUNDED Martial Master Henrietta Luneau for allowing perjury of GAL / Attorney Aaby. As I understand the circumstances, per the petition and petition ruling, GAL / Attorney Aaby was the live in girlfriend of a divorcing party litigant and provided a favorable recommendation relative to custody. A motion identifying a conflict of interest was submitted by Petitioner 14 and denied by Master Luneau. A complaint by Petitioner 14 was made to the JCC and dismissed. The RGC also founded that the JCC error by dismissing this complaint.
Master H. Luneau is a member of the NH GAL Board appointed by the Supreme Court. Her term expired 6/12 per the GAL Board web site as of June 18, 2012. I have learned from the GAL Board secretary that the Supreme Court has re appointed Master Henrietta Luneau and her term expiration date is now 6/17. The GAL Board will not challenge the appointment of any member by the Governor or Supreme Court; the Board is apparently not authorized to challenge an appointment.
Late breaking information today has indicated that the Governor actually reappointed Master Luneau to the GAL Board for another 5 years after the redress committe Founded her for allowing perjury of a GAL / Attorney in a divorce custody case.
See about 1/4 of the way down
PETITION #14 grievance of Jeanette Dionne.
MAJORITY
Grievance Founded With Recommendations.
Committee Majority Findings:
Having reviewed the testimony and documents, and having received no response from any of the involved officials or their representatives, despite invitations to so provide, the Committee concludes: a) that the Brentwood Family Division wrongfully considered and granted an ex parte motion premised purely on hearsay of the father concerning, not anything the Petitioner mother had done, but what she might do, a standard which if applied uniformly would justify jailing every citizen of the State of New Hampshire; b) that the Marital Master held a hearing without providing the statutory 10 day notice, and that the Court Clerk failed to provide statutory notice to the Petitioner of a hearing in which she was a material party; c) that the Guardian ad Litem did not promptly disclose and disqualify herself by reason of a conflict of interest based upon her prior representation of the live-in girlfriend of the father of Petitioner’s children, whose input could be expected to be and in fact was material to the parenting plan eventually adopted; d) that the Marital Master and supervising Judge failed in their responsibility to protect the public from conflicted attorneys by not removing the conflicted Guardian ad Litem from the case as soon as her conflict was finally disclosed; e) that the Marital Master and supervising Judge failed to hold the Guardian ad Litem accountable for evident perjury when she represented that she had been unaware of the conflict of interest; and f) that the Judicial Conduct Committee failed to sanction the Marital Master or supervising Judge for their failure to address the Guardian ad Litem’s conflict of interest issue with the order of disqualification it obviously required.
Recommendations
The troubling issues raised in this Petition should be included with others by which evidence is accumulating to show serious deficiencies in the administration, investigation and adjudication of Family Division cases. Vote 9-2.
Rep. Greg Sorg for the Majority of the Committee
