Legal Opinion
State v. Philbrick
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided October 27, 1981PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.
Indicted September 8, 1977 on a single count of criminal homicide in the 2nd degree (17-A M.R.S.A. § 202(1)(A) (Supp. 1976), 1 the defendant, Leland Philbrick, was originally tried for and adjudged guilty of that crime by a Superior Court jury in York County in January, 1978. On appeal his conviction was set aside for error of the presiding justice in refusing to give the jury Philbrick’s requested instruction that the defendant would be justified in using deadly force to repel a forcible sexual contact, if he reasonably believed that such a contact was about…
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