State v. Winslow

COLLINS, Justice.

Defendant Edmund Winslow appeals his jury conviction in Superior Court (Knox County, Silsby, J.) for murder pursuant to 17-A M.R.S.A. § 201(1)(A) (1983). Defendant contends that he was deprived of a fair trial by the State’s refusal to grant immunity to a defense witness who could testify as to the defendant’s state of mind at the time of the killing. Defendant also argues that the Superior Court’s admission of evidence of a threat made by the defendant against the victim three weeks before her murder was prejudicial error. We affirm the conviction.

On November 5, 1987, at…