State v. Smith

DANA, Justice.

Virgil Smith appeals from judgments of conviction entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Fritzsche, J.) following jury verdicts finding him guilty of one count of arson in violation of 17-A M.R.SA. § 802(1)(B)(2) & 802(2) (1983) and four counts of depraved indifference murder in violation of 17-A M.R.SA. § 201(1)(B) (1983). Smith challenges: the denial by the court (Brennan, J.) of his motion to suppress certain statements and physical evidence, the propriety of several evidentiary rulings made at the trial, and the court’s refusal to instruct the jury on alternative…