State v. Boucher

RUDMAN, Justice.

Michael M. Boucher appeals from his conviction of murder, 17 M.R.S.A. § 2651 1 entered on a jury verdict in the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Chandler, /.). The murder occurred on September 16, 1973. The victim’s body was found beside her car in Litchfield later that day. A pathologist testified that she had been beaten and strangled and that some of her wounds suggested that the weapon was a carpenter’s hammer. The State connected Boucher to the incident with his own statements to various people over approximately 13 years. He was convicted on July 16,1992, and sentenced…