State v. Kessler

ROBERTS, Justice.

Richard Kessler appeals his conviction of trafficking in cocaine, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 1103 (1982). His only claims of error relate to the remarks of the presiding justice that the exhibited evidence was cocaine and that the quantity of the cocaine was sizeable. We affirm the judgment of conviction.

I

The jury was warranted in finding the following facts. Richard Finn made arrangements to sell cocaine to a person named Craig Small who was in reality undercover Detective James Sweetman of the Biddeford Police Department. Between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. on August 15,1981, these two men met…