STATE v. ZADAKIS


511 A.2d 1074 (1986)

STATE of Maine v. Stephen R. ZADAKIS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided July 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet T. Mills, Dist. Atty., Kevin Regan (orally), Asst. Dist. Atty., South Paris, for State.

Preti, Flaherty & Beliveau, Joy C. Cantrell (orally), Albert Beliveau, Portland, for defendant.

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


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

After a jury trial in Superior Court (Oxford County), defendant Stephen R. Zadakis was convicted of unlawful trafficking in cocaine, a Schedule W drug, in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 1103 (1983). The only issue on appeal is whether the presiding justice abused his discretion in refusing to allow defense counsel to cross-examine the State's principal witness as to a specific instance of that witness's prior conduct. Finding no abuse of...

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