Ware v. State

GODFREY, Justice.

In a Superior Court hearing on Lance Ware’s petition for post-conviction relief, the presiding justice found that Ware’s parole had been illegally revoked and ordered that he be immediately released from prison. In the State’s appeal from that order pursuant to 15 M.R.S.A. § 2131(2) (Supp. 1980-81), the State contends that the presiding justice committed clear error in his determination below. We affirm the judgment.

On December 7, 1978, Lance Ware was paroled from the Maine State Prison on a sentence for robbery. That same day Ware and another known felon were arrested by the…