STATE v. BURTON

Docket: Pen-18-2.

198 A.3d 195 (2018)

2018 ME 162

STATE of Maine v. Robert BURTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: December 11, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy Pratt, Esq. (orally), and Ellen Simmons, Esq. , Camden, for appellant Robert Burton.

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

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


[¶ 1] In the early hours of June 5, 2015, Robert Burton entered the home of his former girlfriend and shot her three times in the back, killing her. He fled into the woods and evaded law enforcement officials for sixty-eight days before turning himself in. Burton was charged with, and found guilty of, intentional or knowing murder...

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