County responsible for false rape case, says local police dept.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Defending against a federal lawsuit, which claims Fremont police falsely arrested, imprisoned and accused a Marine veteran of rape, the town is now shifting blame to the Rockingham County Attorney's Office.

Veteran Andrew "Drew" Cullen filed suit in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire alleging the town of Fremont and two of its top police officials falsely imprisoned him and cast him in a false light by untrue accusations that he sexually assaulted a mentally-disabled woman. In a 5-count federal lawsuit, Cullen names the town, former police chief Neal Janvrin and police Sgt. Adam Raymond as responsible for failing to investigate the initial allegations that were made by a woman with well-documented mental limitations, who gave three different versions of her story and previously made a similar false claim against someone else.

A Circuit Court judge in February 2012 found there was no probable cause that Cullen committed the crime and the case was dismissed, according to court records. Probable cause is considered a low legal threshold and few cases are tossed at that level.

For reasons that have not been made public, Janvrin was fired six months later and he responded with a wrongful termination suit against the town of Fremont.'