STATE v. BENNET


502 A.2d 1047 (1986)

STATE of Maine v. James BENNETT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided January 9, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Atwood, (orally), Dist. Atty., Rockland, for plaintiff.

Frederick M. Newcomb, III, Jane Surran Pyne, (orally), Rockland, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ.


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

A Superior Court jury in Knox County found defendant James Bennett guilty of having committed, at about midnight on January 13, 1985, burglary of a locked and unoccupied building in Rockland used by a women's alcoholic counseling service. 17-A M.R.S.A. § 401 (1983). Responding to a call triggered by a silent alarm, the police found defendant with two companions hiding in the building. Evidence at trial showed that the building had been...

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