Legal Opinion
Petition of Thomas
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided September 4, 1981PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.
On November 26, 1980, Peter B. Thomas, by a petition to the Superior Court, Cumberland County, filed pursuant to 15 M.R. S.A. § 1256, requested permission to appear personally before the grand jury for the purpose of offering evidence which Thomas alleged would show that the Chief of Police and the Corporation Counsel of the City of Portland had committed the crime of “Official Oppression,” 17-A M.R.S.A. § 608. Thomas simultaneously asked that state prosecutors be excluded from his presentation. After hearing, the Court denied Thomas’s petition. We affirm the…
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3Cited by4 opinions
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