MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.
Following a jury-waived trial in Superior Court (Aroostook County), defendant appeals from his conviction of rape, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 252(1)(A) (1983). He first argues that the court erroneously admitted evidence of defendant's inculpatory statements before the State proved the corpus delicti. The preferred order of proof at trial is for the State to present evidence of corpus delicti before proffering defendant's confession. State v....
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