NICHOLS, Justice.
On this appeal we confront a novel issue implicating M.R.Evid. 609, not as to admissibility of evidence of a witness' prior conviction, but as to the comments the presiding justice made on that evidence in the course of a jury trial in Superior Court (Cumberland County).
The Defendant, Gary Chase, appealing from his conviction in that trial of unlawful possession of a Schedule X drug, a Class D
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