State v. Johnson

SCOLNIK, Justice.

Defendants Jerald Johnson and Dominic Profenno appeal from their respective convictions of murder and attempted murder, 17-A M.R.S.A. §§ 201, 152, resulting from a jury trial in Superior Court (Cumberland County). On appeal, they argue that the presiding justice committed error in 1) denying a motion by Profenno to sever the two trials, 2) excluding testimony by the defendants’ roommate regarding a possible inference from silence, 3) admitting into evidence three knives discovered in defendants’ apartment, and 4) excluding a tape recording of a conversation between Johnson’s…