Legal Opinion
State v. Simoneau
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 29, 1979PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POMEROY, Justice.
Defendant appeals from four judgments of conviction entered on a multi-count indictment charging murder, aggravated assault, and two counts of attempted murder. 17-A M.R.S.A. §§ 201, 208, 152.
We deny the appeals.
I
The facts are not in dispute.
On April 1, 1978 at 7:17 p. m., Biddeford police officers Gaudette and Marcoux arrested appellant Simoneau at his home, following a shooting spree. Appellant’s stepdaughter was killed.
Officer Gaudette handcuffed appellant and placed him in the back seat of a police cruiser. Taking a position in the cruiser’s front seat, Gaudette gave…
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