State v. Pouliot

[¶ 1] The State appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court (Washington County, Marden, J.) granting intervenor Jamie Pouliot’s motion to return firearms pursuant to the third party exception of the firearms forfeiture statute, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 1158 (Supp.2002). Finding no error, we affirm the judgment.

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[¶ 2] Following a jury trial, Roland Pou-liot was found guilty of one count of possession of a firearm by a felon (Class C), 15 M.R.S.A. § 393 (2003). The charge related to eighty-eight firearms confiscated by the State from a locked room in a building in which Roland’s wife…