State v. LeBlanc

WEATHERBEE, Justice.

On May 14, 1973, the Portland Police received a telephone call from a woman who would not identify herself but stated that there were “strange goings on” at a certain apartment on 658 Congress Street and that the owner was not at home. Approximately five minutes after receiving this cryptic piece of intelligence, four plainclothes detectives arrived at the apartment. They noted that both the door lock and door frame were broken, and that splintered wood covered the floor near the door. The apartment had been visited by one of the detectives a week before at which time the…