WATSON v. STATE

Docket: Pen-19-237.

230 A.3d 6 (2020)

2020 ME 51

Richard WATSON v. STATE of Maine.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: April 21, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Paris, Esq. (orally), Bath, for appellant Richard Watson

Joshua K. Saucier , Asst. Dist. Atty., and Mark A. Rucci , Asst. Dist. Atty. (orally), Prosecutorial District V, Bangor, for appellee State of Maine.

Panel: MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HUMPHREY, HORTON, and CONNORS, JJ.


[¶1] Richard Watson appeals from a judgment of the Unified Criminal Docket (Penobscot County, Lucy, J.) denying his petition for post-conviction review. We conclude that Watson was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney introduced into evidence and played for the jury a videotaped recording...

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