Legal Opinion
State v. Reilly
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 28, 1982PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTS, Justice.
Following a jury trial in Superior Court, Penobscot County, Robert J. Reilly was convicted of assault on an officer, 17-A M.R. S.A. § 752. On appeal he claims that (1) the prosecutor’s final argument was improper and requires reversal, (2) the trial court erred when it excluded what he characterizes as a prior consistent statement, (3) the trial court should not have allowed the prosecutor to ask certain questions regarding the defendant’s ingestion of drugs and (4) the trial court erred by refusing to give a proposed instruction. We conclude that, in the context of this…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- United States v. Hubert SpainCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1976
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