Legal Opinion
State v. Emery
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided May 12, 1976PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHIBALD, Justice.
The defendants were tried jointly on separate indictments for escape from the Maine State Prison (34 M.R.S.A. § 710) and a Knox County jury returned verdicts of guilty. The cases were consolidated for purposes of these appeals, which we deny.
I
The appellants claim that they have been denied equal protection of the law since they received sentences which are in excess of the maximum sentence that could be imposed on a woman who escaped incarceration while serving a State Prison sentence.
34 M.R.S.A. § 710 1 provides in part:
“If a convict, sentenced to the State 'Prison for…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Hamner v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1966
- Burton Andrew Wark v. Allan L. Robbins, Warden, Maine State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1972
- State v. HolbrookSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
- State v. HaycockSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1972
- Wark v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1970
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3Cited by4 opinions
- DuPont v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
- State v. KesslerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1983
- State v. HickokCourt of Appeals of Washington · 1985
- DuPont v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007