State v. Pease

WATHEN, Justice.

The defendant appeals pursuant to 17 — A M.R.S.A. § 1207 (Pamph.1982) from two orders of the Superior Court (Somerset County) revoking probation and imposing the original sentences. Defendant challenges the orders of revocation on a number of grounds. Since a procedural error requires that the orders of revocation be vacated, it is unnecessary to consider the grounds specified by the defendant.

In 1980 the defendant was convicted in the Superior Court of the offense of possession of a firearm by a felon. He was given a suspended State Prison sentence of two years and placed on…