NH Supreme Court tosses Adam Montgomery's murder conviction

Key Points:

• The New Hampshire Supreme Court has reversed Adam Montgomery’s 2024 second-degree murder conviction in the death of his daughter, Harmony Montgomery, citing improper joinder of the murder and assault charges at trial.
• Montgomery was originally found guilty of second-degree murder, assault, falsifying evidence, witness tampering, and abuse of a corpse related to Harmony’s 2019 death and disappearance.
• The court ruled that the evidence for the July 2019 assault was much stronger than the evidence for the murder, creating a risk that the jury was unfairly prejudiced by the combined charges.
• While the murder conviction was overturned, the court upheld Montgomery’s other convictions, including assault and abuse of a corpse, and he remains incarcerated serving those sentences along with prior weapons convictions.
• The ruling emphasized that the only direct evidence tying Montgomery to the murder was his wife Kayla’s testimony, which the court found was not sufficiently corroborated to support the murder charge.