State of Maine v. George Jaime

[¶ 1] In the fall of 1998, thirty-nine-year-old Starlette Vining went missing. Her absence was not reported to authorities until 2006. On July 12, 2012, George Jaime was charged with Vining’s murder. A jury found Jaime guilty, and he appeals from the resulting judgment of conviction of intentional or knowing murder, 17-A M.R.S. § 201(1)(A) (2014), entered by the trial court (R. Murray, J.).

[¶ 2] Jaime raises several arguments on appeal. We focus on his arguments that the court erred in admitting prior consistent statements of Jaime’s son, Ted Jaime, and that the court abused its discretion in…