Heed quits as attorney general over complaint

[Freddie Stubbs]

CONCORD — Just hours after resigning as attorney general yesterday, Peter Heed said he is a “gentleman” and will apologize if he unintentionally offended anyone while on a dance floor at a domestic violence and sexual assault conference.

Heed resigned yesterday, and his successor said a county prosecutor is reviewing Heed’s actions on the night of May 20, the date of the conference at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods.

In late May, Rochester District Court Judge Franklin C. Jones was suspended after five women claimed he groped them during the conference. Allegations into Heed’s behavior center on his behavior on the dance floor, Heed said.

“I’m an outgoing, enthusiastic guy,” Heed said last night. “If someone misinterpreted my enthusiasm, I regret that. But nothing was ever done in a mean-spirited way.

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