State v. LeClair

POMEROY, Justice.

Rule 37A(b), Maine Rules of Criminal Procedure, is the vehicle by which this “case” is before us for decision.

The ruling we are asked to review is clearly interlocutory and constitutes an exception to the “final judgment rule.” Rule 37, Maine Rules of Criminal Procedure.

The reason for requiring a final judgment as a condition of appellate review was described by Mr. Justice Frankfurter in DiBella v. United States, 369 U.S. 121, 82 S. Ct. 654, 7 L.Ed.2d 614 (1962).

“This insistence on finality and prohibition of piecemeal review discourage undue litigiousness and leaden-footed…