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LEWISOHN v. STATE

433 A.2d 351 (1981)

James E. LEWISOHN v. STATE of Maine et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided August 3, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

William R. Stokes (orally), Charles K. Leadbetter, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., WERNICK and ROBERTS, JJ., and DUFRESNE, A. R. J.

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

In this appeal by the State from the Superior Court's granting of petitioner Lewisohn's application for a writ of habeas corpus, the function of the Law Court is a narrow one. First, if the single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, who sat by assignment in the Superior Court,1 was correct in finding as a fact that a woman who sat on the jury that tried and convicted...

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