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Teen pleads guilty: Receives deferred sentence, restitution and counseling ordered

By Dean Shalhoup - Senior Staff Writer | Apr 6, 2019

NASHUA – Prosecutors have agreed to drop one first-degree assault charge and amend two others to second-degree assault in the case of William Newman, the 19-year-old Nashua resident charged with assaulting two people with a knife in 2017.

Newman, of 24 Cox St., agreed to plead guilty to the two amended charges, which are felonies, while the original first-degree assault charges are also felonies.

The charges stem from Newman’s arrest following the Aug. 4, 2017 incident, in which he was accused of attacking two men with a knife, causing lacerations to the cheek and neck of one and stabbing the other in the lower back, according to the indictments the grand jury handed up last year.

The terms of the agreement worked out by Newman’s lawyers and state prosecutors include two terms of two to four years in State Prison, all deferred for one year, and three years of probation.

If Newman violates any terms of the agreement and the court imposes the sentences, they are to be served concurrently.

Newman is also ordered to pay $2,264 in restitution to one of the victims through the state Department of Corrections, while he must write a letter of apology to that victim, according to the terms.

He is also prohibited from being in contact with the victims.

The parties also agree in the plea deal that Newman will undergo a psychological evaluation, and comply with any recommendations that result from the evaluation. He must also continue individual counseling, and provide proof to the state if so ordered.

And Newman agrees also to enter and complete an anger management course, and to provide proof if ordered.

One of the second-degree assault charges as amended accuse Newman of “knowingly stabbing” one of the men in the lower back, while the other accuses him of “knowingly causing serious bodily injury by lacerating the neck” of the other man.

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