State v. Searles

COLLINS, Justice.

Gordon Searles appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Penobscot County, Brown, AR.J.) convicting him of escape from a minimum security correctional facility, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 755 (1983), on the ground that the court improperly granted the State’s motion in limine to exclude evidence pertaining to the defense of duress. Because we conclude that the court did not err in granting the State’s motion, we affirm the judgment.

In the summer and early fall of 1991, Gordon Searles was serving time at the Charleston Correctional Institute for habitually operating after…