Legal Opinion

State v. Robinson

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided August 15, 1985PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

On June 21, 1984, a Penobscot County jury found defendant Gordon Robinson III guilty of Class A rape, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 252(1)(B) (1983). Finding no reversible error in his trial, we affirm the Superior Court’s judgment of conviction.

I

At trial the prosecutrix and defendant Robinson gave sharply divergent testimony as to what happened at her home in Garland on an October night in 1983. Defendant, who at that time lived in Dover-Fox-croft, said that he had driven to the prose-cutrix’s house in the early morning hours but had left when he saw through a window that she was…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Doyle v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  3. Oregon v. MathiasonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Jenkins v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  5. State v. TrueSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981

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3Cited by31 opinions

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  2. State v. BunyardSupreme Court of Kansas · 2006
  3. State v. BabyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2008
  4. State v. CrainNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1997
  5. State v. SieringConnecticut Appellate Court · 1994

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