Kimball v. State

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

This is the third time that Richard Kim-ball has been before the Law Court following his 1979 murder conviction in the Superior Court (Oxford County). His direct appeal from that conviction was denied in State v. Kimball, 424 A.2d 684 (Me.1981). 1 In 1982 petitioner and his co-defendant Randolph Lord filed in the Superior Court motions for new trial based on newly discovered evidence. We affirmed the denial of those motions in State v. Lord, 458 A.2d 432 (Me.1983). In August of 1983 petitioner Kimball filed pursuant to 15 M.R.S.A. § 2129 (Supp.1984-1985) a petition for…