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New Hampshire Supreme Court upholds Holloway’s conviciton

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FILE - This undated booking photo released by the Pelham Police Department shows Dale Holloway, accused of shooting and wounding a New Hampshire pastor and a bride at a wedding, in Pelham, N.H., on Oct. 12, 2019. The trial started Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, for a Holloway who is accused of shooting and wounding a New Hampshire pastor and a bride at a church wedding ceremony in October 2019. Holloway, who pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other charges, is acting as his own attorney at the trial in Nashua. Photo: Associated Press/Pelham Police Department via AP, File

MANCHESTER, N.H.- The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling in the case against Dale E. Holloway Jr. the man convicted for the 2019 shooting inside a church in Pelham.

On Wednesday the high court released a 17-page ruling in which it denied Holloway’s appeal of each of his guilty verdicts handed down in November of 2023 by a Hillsboro County Superior Court Jury.

According to court documents Holloway was convicted on a single count each of attempted murder, along with being a felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, as well as second-degree assault and simple assault as well as two counts of first-degree assault. However, Holloway was found not guilty on a second count of attempted murder.

Holloway is currently severing a sentence of 40-year to life following the attack in 2019 in which he interrupted a wedding and shooting Bishop Stanley Choate, as he was presiding over the wedding of Mark Castiglione and Claire McMullen.

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