State of Maine v. Andrew J. Legassie

[¶ 1] In this appeal, we address the intersection of the digital world of social media and our criminal statutes and rules of evidence.

[¶ 2] The victims of the charges at issue here are five teenage girls, designated in the trial court’s order as Victims A, B, C, D, and E. 1 At the time of the alleged offenses, the victims ranged in age from fourteen to seventeen years old. Each victim received from the defendant explicit digital images, which were admitted in evidence as State’s Exhibits 2, 5, 6, and 7, and digital messages. The trial court found that the defendant confessed to creating…