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Article: MCLAUGHLIN ORDERED DETAINED WITHOUT BAIL TOP N.H. DETECTIVE TESTIFIES AGAINST OFFICER

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September 13, 1988
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EXETER, N.H. - Hampton police officer Robert McLaughlin had liquor on his breath the night he turned himself in for Robert Cushing's killing, the state's top detective testified yesterday, but the detective added McLaughlin was coherent and clear-voiced when he declared: "I shot Cushing on June 1."

At the end of the testimony by Lt. Martin R. Heon Jr., commander of the major crime unit of the New Hampshire State Police, Rockingham Superior Court Judge Douglas R. Gray ruled state prosecutors had established a presumption of first-degree murder, and ordered McLaughlin held without bail. A Superior Court grand jury will begin hearing prosecution evidence today as it decides whether to ...

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