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STATE v. SPRINGER

No. 27-80.

431 A.2d 460 (1981)

STATE of Vermont v. Lewis E. SPRINGER, Jr., Presiding Judge, District Court of Vermont, Unit No. 3, Lamoille Circuit; Mary Burnor, Nadine Degree, Larry Thomson, William Sander and Arthur Hanson.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

April 10, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Jerome Diamond, Atty. Gen., and Edwin L. Hobson, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Montpelier, and Joseph Wolchik, Lamoille County State's Atty., Hyde Park, for plaintiff.

James L. Morse, Defender Gen., William A. Nelson, Appellate Defender, Montpelier, and Jacqueline Majoros, Law Clerk, Montpelier, on brief, for Hanson.

Brian Grearson of Richard E. Davis Associates, Inc., Barre, for Springer.

Bruce Bjornlund, Waterbury, for Burnor, Degree, Thomson and Sander.

Before LARROW, BILLINGS, HILL and UNDERWOOD, JJ., and DALEY, J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.

HILL, Justice.

This appeal emanates from an inquest into the death of a patient at the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury.

The body of a patient was discovered in a remote wooded area near the hospital, covered with green hospital bedsheets, pine needles, moss, and a jacket belonging to another hospital patient. The owner of the jacket, Arthur Hanson, had left the institution with the decedent. The cause of death was a contact gunshot wound to the head. The...

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