State v. Lang

Appealing from a conviction for unlawful sexual contact, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 255(1)(C), the defendant, Robert W. Lang, assigns as his single point of error that he was not convicted by an impartial jury.

We deny the appeal.

The gist of the defendant’s argument is that four jurors in his trial were among the jurors in the immediately preceding trial which had convicted another individual of a like offense [17-A M.R.S.A. § 255(1)(A)] upon another victim before the same presiding Justice. He further argues that under such circumstances and with the underlying facts of both cases virtually identical we…