STATE v. FARRIS


420 A.2d 928 (1980)

STATE of Maine v. Michael FARRIS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided October 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry N. Berry, III, Dist. Atty., Peter G. Ballou, Deputy Dist. Atty. (orally), Nancy Ziegler, Richard Currier, Barbara Montegani, Law Student Interns, Portland, for plaintiff.

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, Peter J. Rubin (orally), Portland, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and WERNICK, GLASSMAN and ROBERTS, JJ.


WERNICK, Justice.

The defendant Michael Farris has appealed from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County) on the verdict of a jury finding him guilty, as charged, of arson, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 802(1)(A) (Class B). The appeal raises four issues, whether: (1) certain evidentiary rulings by the presiding justice should be held reversible error; (2) the admission of other evidence, not objected to at trial, should be noticed on appeal as error affecting...

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