State v. Davis

The Defendant, Richard E. Davis, Jr., was convicted of burglary following jury trial in Superior Court in Cumberland County. In bringing this appeal, he does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, but rather he argues that certain evidence admitted in the course of the trial denied him a fair trial.

We deny the appeal.

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The Defendant argues that, due to the admission of certain testimony allegedly in violation of our decision in State v. Elwell, Me., 380 A.2d 1016 (1977), the trial justice committed reversible error in failing to act on his own initiative to sever…