State v. Collins

ROBERTS, Justice.

After a jury trial in Superior Court, Cumberland County, Scott Eric Collins was convicted of robbery, Class A, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 651(1)(C)-(D) (1983). On appeal Collins contends that the court erred (1) in excluding defense evidence that another person committed the robbery and (2) in admitting rebuttal evidence of the victim’s prior identification of the defendant and of the degree of certainty of that identification. We affirm the judgment of conviction.

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The State introduced evidence that on August 22, 1980, at approximately 1:00 a.m., two men robbed James Haynes of his…