State v. Thompson

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

After a jury trial the Superior Court (Cumberland County) convicted defendant Miles Benjamin Thompson of three counts of gross sexual misconduct, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 253(1)(B), a Class A crime; one count of incest, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 556, a Class D crime; and one count of sexual abuse of a minor, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 254, a Class D crime. All five charges resulted from a continuous sexual relationship to which defendant Thompson had subjected his minor daughter, commencing in 1978 when she was eleven years of age. The daughter gave birth to a child in May 1982. In addition to…