Hennie v. State

OPINION

Between October and December 1994, a series of property crimes was committed in the Fernley, Nevada area. Based largely on circumstantial evidence and the testimony of the State’s two key witnesses, Stanley Brown and Maurice Marineau, appellant Edward Robert Hennie was ultimately charged with committing the crimes.

During trial, Hennie asserted his innocence and claimed that he had been framed for the various crimes by his roommates, Brown and Marineau. At the conclusion of trial, the jury found Hennie guilty of burglary, grand larceny, felony theft from a vending machine, and attempted…