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STATE v. DOUCETTE

398 A.2d 36 (1978)

STATE of Maine v. Wayne Leroy DOUCETTE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

November 28, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry N. Berry, III, Dist. Atty., Peter G. Ballou, Deputy Dist. Atty., Portland, Glenn Robinson, Law Student (orally), for plaintiff.

Ellsworth T. Rundlett, III, Portland (orally), Michael J. LaTorre, Portland, for defendant.

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

DELAHANTY, Justice.

After a jury trial in Superior Court, Cumberland County, the defendant was convicted of forcibly raping a deaf seventeen-year-old female and was sentenced to a term of twelve years in Maine State Prison. 17-A M.R.S.A. § 252(1)(B)(1). On appeal, Doucette alleges four principal assignments of error:

I) the presiding Justice's summary rejection of the defendant's mid-trial offer to change his plea to guilty; II) the appointment...

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