State of Maine v. Christopher Sudsbury

[¶ 1] After Christopher Sudsbury sold a single strip of Suboxone to a confidential informant for twenty-five dollars, a jury found him guilty of aggravated trafficking of a schedule W drug (Class A), 17-A M.R.S. § 1105-A(1)(B)(1) (2015), and the court (Waldo County, Alexander, J.) sentenced him to eight years in prison. 1 The State now concedes that it failed to present evidence — required for purposes of proving the charged Class A crime — that the Suboxone was, in fact, a schedule W drug. 2 See 17-A M.R.S. §§ 1102(1), 3 1105-A(1)(B)(1) (2015). Thus, we have no choice but to vacate the…