Legal Opinion
State v. Fitanides
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided May 25, 1977PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WERNICK, Justice.
In a consolidated trial before a jury held in the Superior Court (York County) on April 14th-16th, 1975, defendant Theophi-lus A. Fitanides was found guilty, as charged, of having committed the crimes of Speeding (29 M.R.S.A. § 1252), Failure to Stop for a Police Officer (29 M.R.S.A. § 2121), and Assault on a Police Officer (17 M.R.S.A. § 2952).
Defendant has pressed a consolidated appeal from each of the judgments of conviction.
We sustain defendant’s appeal from the speeding conviction but deny it as to the others.
The jury was entitled to find the following facts.
On December…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- United States v. SantanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- State v. DavenportSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
- Ex Parte SlaughterCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
- State v. BlankenshipArizona Supreme Court · 1965
- Jackson v. Superior CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1950
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Brown v. WarchalowskiSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1984
- State v. SmallSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1980
- State v. RoperSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1980
- Toomey v. City of PortlandSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
- Brown v. WarchalowskiSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1984
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