Legal Opinion
State v. Hamlin
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided July 5, 1985No. 82-339PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, J.
Defendant appeals his convictions of first degree murder and aggravated sexual assault following a jury trial in Windsor Superior Court. He also appeals the sentence he received on the charge of first degree murder. We affirm.
On May 15, 1981, the defendant, then sixteen years old, and a fifteen-year-old companion seized two girls, ages twelve and thirteen, as the girls walked through a wooded shortcut on their way home from school. The defendant and his friend covered the girls’ mouths and dragged them off the path and into the woods. The two boys had BB guns and told the girls to keep quiet…
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