Legal Opinion
State v. Wilder
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 24, 2000PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAlexander, J.
[¶ 1] This appeal requires identification of the border between a parent’s justified use of physical force to control a child and a criminal assault. Lawrence Wilder ap peals from a decision of the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Perkins, A.R.J.), which affirmed a judgment of the District Court (Portland, Bradley, J.) finding him guilty of three counts of assault, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 207(1) (1983) (Class D), on his nine-year-old son. 1 Wilder contends that the District Court: (1) misapplied 17-A M.R.S.A. § 106(1) (1983) to disregard the parental control justification for his acts; (2) erred in…
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