State v. Clements

WERNICK, Justice.

Defendant Paul Clements has appealed from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County) convicting him of Burglary (17-A M.R.S.A. § 401), and of Theft (17-A M.R.S.A. § 353). The appeal makes the basic claim that it was error for the presiding justice to have denied defendant’s motion for a new trial. Rule 37(a), (c) M.R.Crim.P.; Glassman, Maine Practice, § 33.5 (1967).

We deny the appeal and affirm the judgment of conviction.

On June 6, 1979, defendant forcibly entered the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Paulsen on Park Street in Portland and stole some…