STATE v. SUDSBURY

Docket No. Wal-14-533.

132 A.3d 863 (2016)

2016 ME 25

STATE of Maine v. Christopher SUDSBURY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: February 4, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean Ociepka, Esq. , (orally), Belfast, for appellant Christopher Sudsbury.

Katie R. Hollstrom , Asst. Dist. Atty., (orally), District Attorney's Office, Bath, for appellee State of Maine.

Zachary L. Heiden, Esq. , ACLU of Maine Foundation, Portland, and Catherine R. Connors, Esq. , and Joshua D. Dunlap, Esq. , Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.


[¶ 1] After Christopher Sudsbury sold a single strip of Suboxone to a confidential informant for twenty-five dollars, a jury found him guilty of aggravated trafficking of a schedule W drug (Class A), 17-A M.R.S. § 1105-A(1)(B)(1) (2015), and the court (Waldo County, Alexander, J.) sentenced him to eight years in prison.

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