State v. Simmons

ROBERTS, Justice.

Following a jury trial in Superior Court, Lincoln County, Randall Simmons was convicted of manslaughter, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 203. On appeal, Simmons questions the admission at trial of oral and written statements he made to police and the use at a pretrial hearing of an oral statement which the State failed to reveal to his defense counsel. We affirm the conviction.

The victim, Michael Simmons, and the defendant had been-friends. 1 A few days prior to his death, Michael Simmons had made advances to the defendant’s girlfriend, had convinced her to accompany him in his automobile,…