State v. Chapman

SCOLNIK, Justice.

A Superior Court jury, Penobscot County, convicted the defendant of operating a motor vehicle when his operator’s license was suspended under the habitual offender statute. 29 M.R.S.A. 2298 (1983). He appeals from the denial of his pre-trial motion to suppress the evidence of his habitual offender status on the ground that it was illegally obtained. He also argues that certain evidence, without which, he asserts, he could not have been convicted, was inadmissible hearsay. Because the evidence of his habitual offender status was obtained as a result of an unjustified…