Legal Opinion
State v. Chapman
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 23, 1985PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLASSMAN, Justice.
Robert Alan Chapman, the defendant, appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court, Hancock County, entered on the jury’s verdict finding him guilty of manslaughter in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 203 (1983). The defendant alleges the trial court erred in denying several of his pretrial motions, in ruling on a number of evidentiary matters during the course of the trial, in instructing the jury, and in imposing sentence. We find no error and affirm the judgment.
On April 6, 1982, the defendant was indicted for the 1978 murder of his five-week old son, Kevin Paul Chapman.…
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