State of Maine v. Olland Reese

[¶ 1] In 2003, a jury found Olland Reese guilty of intentional or knowing murder, 17-A M.R.S. § 201(1)(A) (2012), for killing a sixteen-year-old girl in May 2002. The girl had been struck in the head with a blunt object and buried, with her wrists bound in duct tape, behind Reese’s mother’s home in Bowdoin. We affirmed the court’s (Warren, J.) judgment of conviction and forty-seven-year sentence entered after the jury returned its verdict. See State v. Reese, 2005 ME 87, 877 A.2d 1090. Five years after Reese’s conviction, he moved for additional DNA analysis and for a new trial. See 15 M.R.S.…