State v. Hanscome

CARTER, Justice.

A grand jury indicted the defendant for violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 401, Burglary, Class C (1988), and 17-A M.R.S.A. § 353, Theft, Class C (1983). The defendant’s pretrial motion to exclude his eleven prior convictions was granted with regard to seven convictions and denied with regard to four convictions. After a trial in Superior Court (York County), a jury found the defendant guilty of both charges. On appeal, the defendant contends that the admission at trial of evidence of his prior convictions was prejudicial error. We deny the appeal.

At the pretrial hearing on the…