Legal Opinion

State v. Dana

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided September 19, 1979PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ARCHIBALD, Justice.

The defendant has appealed four convictions 1 following guilty verdicts in a jury trial in which all charges had been joined.

We deny each appeal.

The defendant did not dispute the fact that he had done the physical acts attributed to him in the various indictments. The inability to formulate the necessary criminal intent to convert any of those acts into statutory violations because of an advanced state of intoxication was the primary theory of the defense. The appeal is not premised on insufficiency of the evidence, however, but on what the defendant claims to have been the…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  2. Carl Miller, Artis P. McClain and Larry Campanella Clark v. State of North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1978
  3. State v. TorresCourt of Appeals of Washington · 1976
  4. State v. TibbettsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1973
  5. United States v. Rody Charles Grey, United States of America v. Norman WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1970

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. State v. ReillySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1982
  2. State v. HindsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1984
  3. State of Maine v. Randall DaluzSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2016
  4. State v. ColomySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
  5. State v. DubeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1987

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