STATE v. LECLAIRE

No. 01-411.

819 A.2d 719 (2003)

2003 VT 4

STATE of Vermont v. Walter LeCLAIRE.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

January 24, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Simpson, Chittenden County State's Attorney, and Pamela Hall Johnson, Deputy State's Attorney, Burlington, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Allison N. Fulcher of Martin & Associates, Barre, for Defendant-Appellant.

Present: AMESTOY, C.J., DOOLEY, MORSE, JOHNSON and SKOGLUND, JJ.


AMESTOY, C.J.

¶ 1. Defendant appeals his conviction after a jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree for causing mortal head trauma to a sixteen-month-old child left in his care. Defendant argues that he is entitled to a new trial because the Chittenden District Court erred by: (1) denying his motion to dismiss in which he claimed that the State failed to collect and preserve potentially exculpatory evidence; (2) prohibiting him from introducing certain...

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