State v. Doucette

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendant Scott Doucette is awaiting trial in Superior Court (Cumberland County) on an indictment for murder, 17-A M.R.S. A. § 201(1)(A) (1983). The State asked the court for a pretrial evidentiary ruling that statements made by a witness, one Mark Parker, whom it proposes to call at Dou-cette’s trial, will if his trial testimony turns out to be inconsistent therewith be fully admissible as nonhearsay even though it does not satisfy the requirements imposed by M.R. Evid. 801(d)(1)(A) for the admission of such prior statements. The Superior Court denied the State’s…