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COOKSON v. STATE

Docket No. Pen-12-351.

86 A.3d 1186 (2014)

2014 ME 24

Jeffrey A. COOKSON v. STATE of Maine.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: February 18, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Hartley, Esq. (orally), Law Office of Richard L. Hartley, P.C., Bangor, on the briefs, for appellant Jeffrey Cookson.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Donald W. Macomber , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of Attorney General, Augusta, on the briefs, for appellee State of Maine.

Dissent: JABAR, J.

GORMAN, J.

[¶ 1] In this third appeal stemming from Jeffrey A. Cookson's 2002 conviction of two counts of intentional or knowing murder, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 201(1)(A) (1983),1 Cookson challenges a decision of the court (Cole, J.) denying, for the second time, his motion for post-conviction DNA analysis of certain evidence. Cookson contends that the court held him to a higher standard of proof than is required pursuant to the...

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