ADAM MONTGOMERY SENTENCING ON WEAPON CHARGES!!

Adam Montgomery, who is charged with murdering his 5-year-old daughter Harmony Montgomery in 2019, said Monday at a sentencing hearing in a separate gun case that he loved his child “unconditionally” and did not kill her.
“I did not kill my daughter Harmony,” said Montgomery, 33, while clad in an orange jail jumper during sentencing on the gun matter in Hillsborough Superior Court. “And I look forward to my upcoming trial to refute those offensive claims.”
In June, a Hillsborough Superior Court jury convicted Adam Montgomery of six charges after hearing testimony from his estranged wife, Kayla Montgomery, who described how he stole a shotgun and a rifle from an acquaintance in Manchester, N.H., in 2019.
He was convicted of two counts of being an armed career criminal, two counts of receiving stolen property, and two counts of theft. Adam Montgomery was previously convicted in Massachusetts for shooting a man in the head and for violent crimes in New Hampshire.
The 33-year-old Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to murdering his daughter in 2019. Her body has not been found. Jury selection is set for Nov. 20, according to court records.
In court in the gun matter Monday, prosecutors and defense lawyers sparred over whether Montgomery should get the mandatory minimum 10 to 20 years in prison for those offenses, as his attorneys requested, or a longer term sought by prosecutors.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Benjamin J. Agati said in court that Montgomery was “convicted 16 years ago of pointing a knife at a 15-year-old girl” and was convicted “15 years ago during an armed home invasion holding the neck [of] a victim, demanding money, and then pointing that gun at the chest of a police officer ... who was able to knock the gun out of his hand and wrestle him to the ground.”
In that latter case, Agati said, he “held a gun to a woman’s neck inside her home in front of her child.”
He said the “minimum sentence is not appropriate when you have the defendant who then, after this, stabs another man with a knife 15 years ago, and then eight years ago does another armed robbery with a conviction of armed assault to murder for shooting a man in the face.”
In the New Hampshire stolen gun case he was convicted of in June, Agati said, Montgomery called the two purloined weapons “the big boys” that he knew he could “turn around and sell them to other convicted felons for money or for drugs, which he did.”
Montgomery, in his own remarks, seemed to link his prior legal record to his struggles with addiction.
“So I understand that I was found guilty by the jury” in the stolen gun case, Montgomery said. “I’m not here to dispute that at all. The only consideration that I ask of you this morning is for you not to consider anything as it relates to the case regarding my daughter Harmony.”
He said of his past, “You probably won’t believe me when I tell you that I didn’t wake up one morning and choose to become an addict. I don’t want to be an addict. And I will spend my time in prison utilizing it to the best of my ability to change things about myself. I could have had a meaningful life, and I blew that opportunity through drugs. But I loved my daughter unconditionally, and I did not kill her. Please don’t consider anything that relates to those charges. Only consider the facts of this [gun] case.”
The judge sentenced Montgomery to 15 to 30 years on each of the armed criminal charges. He received 7.5 years for the theft charges with 5 years suspended.
Judge Messer said his past criminal record could be one of the most violent and egregious records she has seen.
Without showing any emotion, he was led from the courtroom in handcuffs and his feet shackled.
The courtroom was filled with several Manchester Police #truecrime Detectives and MPD Chief Allen Aldenberg who were there to witness the sentencing hearing.
Crystal Sorey, Harmony Montgomery's biological mother sat in the front row of the courtroom with two other people listening to the sentencing. Sorey left the courtroom at one point just before Adam spoke, but returned a short time later.
Montgomery will return to the Hillsborough County House of Corrections, where he will be prepared to be transferred to the New Hampshire State Prison for Men. He will remain at the state prison while he awaits trial on second-degree murder charges for the murder of his daughter, Harmony Montgomery.
Jury selection on the murder charges is currently scheduled for November.

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