STATE v. BARNETT


480 A.2d 791 (1984)

STATE of Maine v. John F. BARNETT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided September 5, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret J. Kravchuk, Dist. Atty., Gary F. Thorne, Asst. Dist. Atty. (orally), Bangor, for the State.

George F. Wood (orally), Sanford, McClaskey & Greig by Richard Petersen, Vancouver, Wash., for defendant.

Before NICHOLS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ., and DUFRESNE, A.R.J.


DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.

After a jury trial in Superior Court, Penobscot County, the defendant John Barnett was convicted of arson, a Class A crime, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 802.1 He now appeals to the Law Court, contending that the justice presiding at his trial committed reversible error in permitting one of the State's witnesses to give opinion testimony. Finding no error in the trial court's ruling, we affirm the judgment of conviction...

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