STATE v. MITCHELL

Docket: Ken-09-443.

4 A.3d 478 (2010)

2010 ME 73

STATE of Maine v. Thomas H. MITCHELL Jr.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: August 5, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Strong, Esq. (orally), Greg N. Dorr, Esq. , Thomaston, ME, for Thomas H. Mitchell Jr.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, William R. Stokes , Dep. Atty. Gen. (orally), Donald W. Macomber , Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, ME, for the State of Maine.

Dissent: SILVER, J.


LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] Thomas H. Mitchell Jr. appeals from a judgment of conviction entered in the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Jabar, J.) upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of the 1983 murder of a woman in her Fayette home. Having considered the issues raised by Mitchell, we address two in this opinion: (1) whether the court erred or abused its discretion in excluding evidence of an alternative suspect, and (2) whether the admission of evidence arising...

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