FREDETTE v. STATE


428 A.2d 395 (1981)

Nancy A. FREDETTE v. STATE of Maine et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Reargued April 1, 1981.

Decided April 14, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glassman, Beagle & Ridge, Caroline D. Glassman (orally), Portland, C. Alan Beagle, Cloutier & Woodman, James F. Cloutier, Portland, for plaintiff.

William R. Stokes (orally), Wayne S. Moss (orally), Charles K. Leadbetter, John Gleason, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, for defendants.

Before WERNICK, GODFREY, NICHOLS, ROBERTS and CARTER, JJ.


WERNICK, Justice.

Invoking the traditional "great writ of liberty", habeas corpus, by a petition addressed to the concurrent jurisdiction of the Supreme Judicial Court (14 M.R.S.A. § 5301), petitioner Nancy A. Fredette alleged that she had been unlawfully restrained of her liberty because the justice who presided at her jury trial for murder refused, after the jury had found petitioner guilty of murder, to admit her to bail pending further judicial review of...

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