Legal Opinion
State v. Doughty
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided April 3, 1979PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice. 1
Regina Doughty (defendant) appeals from a judgment of conviction entered March 17, 1978 upon a jury verdict finding her guilty of perjury under 17-A M.R.S.A., § 451(1)(A). 2 We deny her appeal.
The perjury indictment charged the defendant with making a material false statement under oath in the course of a criminal prosecution against one Robert Kennedy in which the State sought to prove that said Kennedy had committed a simple assault against Mrs. Doughty. The defendant claims that there was error in her trial for perjury, because the presiding Justice 1)…
2Cases cited62 opinions
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- Ewing v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Villaroman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1950
- United States v. Dr. Luther Lewis Ashley, Jr., and John Franklin RoperCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- State v. MathisSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1966
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3Cited by54 opinions
- State v. FergusonOhio Supreme Court · 1983
- State v. CrockerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
- State v. LagasseSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1980
- State v. MilumSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1985
- State v. PierceSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
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