State v. Barnes

[¶ 1] Mark Barnes appeals from a judgment of conviction of murder, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 201 (1983), 1 entered in the Superior Court (Penobscot County, Mead, J.) after a jury trial resulting in a guilty ver- diet. The court sentenced Barnes to sixty-five years in prison. 2

[¶ 2] The trial record reveals that the victim, Barnes’s mother, was discovered brutally murdered in her home. She had suffered blunt force trauma to the face, had a paper towel shoved down her throat, had been strangled, had been stabbed twelve times in the throat, and had been sliced in the abdomen. The police discovered…