State v. Howard

ROBERTS, Justice.

Brion D. Howard appeals from his conviction in the Superior Court (Androscoggin County, Delahanty, II, J.) of trafficking in cocaine, a schedule W drug, in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 1103 (Supp.1990). Howard contends that the court erred in letting his jury trial continue after he voluntarily absented himself on the second day and in several other rulings. We affirm the judgment.

Howard and his wife were walking in Lewiston one evening when two agents of the Bureau of Intergovernmental Drug Enforcement, posing as construction workers, stopped their car and asked if Howard…