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STATE v. VALENTINE

443 A.2d 573 (1982)

STATE of Maine v. Clence L. VALENTINE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided April 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Leadbetter, James R. Erwin (orally), Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for plaintiff.

Francis M. Jackson (orally), South Portland, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and GODFREY, ROBERTS, CARTER, VIOLETTE and WATHEN, JJ.

ROBERTS, Justice.

Clence L. Valentine was tried in Superior Court, Cumberland County, for the intentional or knowing murder of Coletta Tripp, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 201(1)(A) (Supp.1980). In a bifurcated trial,1 after the court denied Valentine's motion for acquittal, a jury found him guilty of the lesser included offense of manslaughter. Valentine thereafter withdrew his previous plea of not guilty...

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