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A jury in Manchester, New Hampshire looked at the evidence in the case of Adam Montgomery. They heard the testimony. They sat through the forensic details, the timelines, the photographs. And they came back unanimous: guilty. Second-degree murder. Adam Montgomery beat his five-year-old daughter Harmony to death in December of 2019. That verdict came in February of 2024.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has reversed that murder conviction. Unanimous decision. And if that sentence alone doesn’t make your stomach turn, hold on. Because the reason it got overturned has nothing to do with whether Adam Montgomery killed his daughter. It has everything to do with how the trial was run.
Harmony Montgomery’s body has never been found. Adam Montgomery knows where she is. At his sentencing, prosecutors offered to cut years off his sentence — all he had to do was tell them where he put his daughter’s remains. He sat there in silence. And the system that was supposed to deliver justice for this little girl has handed him a procedural win.
There’s something about how this appeal even exists that should make you furious. Because the legal maneuver that brought this conviction down? Adam Montgomery’s own defense team originally asked for it. We’ll get to that.
But first, let’s be clear about who Adam Montgomery is. Because when the legal language starts flying — joinder, severance, prejudicial evidence — it’s easy to lose sight of the man at the center of this. So let’s not.
Adam Montgomery has twenty-one entries in his New Hampshire criminal history alone. At eighteen years old, he stabbed another teenager and shoved him out of a moving car over a drug deal gone wrong. He was sentenced to four years. He served three hundred and eighty-three days. He is a suspect in the unsolved 2008 killing of Darlin Guzman in Lynn, Massachusetts — a twenty-eight-year-old computer repairman shot to death in a parking lot outside a convenience store. Montgomery has never been charged in that case. It remains open. In 2014, he was charged with shooting a man in the face in Haverhill, Massachusetts, after crossing the state line to buy drugs. Governor Chris Sununu called him — and this is a direct quote — “a monstrous drug dealer with previous convictions including shooting someone in the head and a separate armed attack on two women in Massachusetts.”
That’s who Adam Montgomery is. Convicted felon. Known drug user. A man with a documented history of violence stretching back to his teenage years and touching two states.
And in February of 2019, a Massachusetts juvenile court judge looked at all of that — every arrest, every conviction, every violent incident — and decided Adam Montgomery was not an unfit parent.
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