State v. Patterson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
1Opinion of the Court
DANA, Justice.
The State appeals from an order entered in the Superior Court (Washington County, Marsano, J.) granting Steven C. Patterson’s motion to exclude statements that he made voluntarily to a police detective in the course of interviews before and after a polygraph test. The State argues that the court erred in concluding that the statements were not admissions, not relevant, and unfairly prejudicial pursuant to M.R.Evid. 801(d)(2)(A), 401, and 403 respectively. Patterson responds that the State’s appeal does not meet the jurisdictional requirements of 15 M.R.S.A § 2115-A(1) (1980) or,…
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