STATE v. HAGAR

Docket: Cum-18-369.

210 A.3d 827 (2019)

2019 ME 97

STATE of Maine v. Burton B. HAGAR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: June 18, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Verne E. Paradie, Jr., Esq. (orally), Paradie & Rabasco, Lewiston, for appellant Burton B. Hagar.

Aaron M. Frey , Attorney General, and Lara M. Nomani , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee State of Maine.

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


[¶1] Corpus delicti, which means "body of the crime," describes the legal concept that the occurrence of a crime must be established before a person can be convicted of committing that crime. Corpus delicti, Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014) (quotation marks omitted). In this case, Burton B. Hagar relies on that...

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