( April 16, 2026, 8:29 AM EDT) -- CONCORD, N.H. — Affirming a jury trial conviction for criminal threatening in a case involving allegations of a mass shooting threat, the New Hampshire Supreme Court said in part that “the State showed an essential need for the defendant’s communications that justified the court’s piercing of the therapist-patient privilege”; the ruling drew a special concurrence criticizing the court’s privilege-piercing precedents....