STATE v. ABBOTT


622 A.2d 723 (1993)

STATE of Maine v. Roy I. ABBOTT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided April 8, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Carpenter, Atty. Gen., Francis E. Ackerman (orally), Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for the State.

Michael E. Saucier (orally), Thompson & Bowie, Portland, for defendant.

Before WATHEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, GLASSMAN, CLIFFORD, COLLINS and RUDMAN, JJ.


WATHEN, Chief Justice.

Defendant Roy I. Abbott appeals from a judgment of conviction entered in the Superior Court (York County, Brennan, J.) on two counts of murder. Defendant entered pleas of not guilty and not criminally responsible by reason of insanity to charges that he shot his two young sons. On appeal, he contends that the Superior Court denied him a fair trial by failing to instruct the jury that it might consider evidence that he was suffering from...

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