HORNBY, Justice.
This case concerns the applicability of conflicting presumptions about the paternity of a child born during a marriage. Under the Maine Rules of Evidence, the legitimacy of a child born or conceived during marriage can be challenged only by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Here, however, the results of blood tests produced a conflicting statutory presumption that the defendant—not the mother's husband— was the father, a presumption that...
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