SAWYER v. STATE


382 A.2d 1039 (1978)

Robert Earl SAWYER v. STATE of Maine and Sheriff Charles Sharpe.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

February 24, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowry, Platt, Fitzhenry, Lunt & Givertz by Phyllis Givertz (orally), Portland, for plaintiff.

Peter Ballou, Deputy Dist. Atty. (orally), Portland, for defendants.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and POMEROY, WERNICK, ARCHIBALD, GODFREY and NICHOLS, JJ.


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Petitioner Robert Earl Sawyer stands indicted by a grand jury in Chautauqua County, New York, for second degree murder and first degree robbery arising from events which the indictment alleges occurred in Stow, Chautauqua County, New York, on or about February 11, 1977. He was arrested in Maine pursuant to a rendition warrant issued by the Governor of Maine,1 and he then petitioned in the Cumberland County Superior...

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