Judge refuses man's admitting throwing hot water in woman's face

A judge refused to accept a local man’s guilty pleas Thursday in District Court to when he pleaded guilty charges including dragging a woman by the hair before strangling her, throwing a pot of boiling water in her face and kicking her in the teeth.

Curtis W. Stanley, born in 1965, pleaded guilty to felony assault with a weapon. Stanley also pleaded guilty to charges of felony assault with a weapon and criminal mischief from a 2015 case that’s still waiting conclusion.

District Judge Daniel Boucher refused to accept the pleas, saying Stanley’s answers to his attorney’s questions were unclear a...