State v. Bunker

POMEROY, Justice.

In State v. Northup, Me., 303 A.2d 1 (1973), we pointed out that in those cases where the accused is a person on whom suspicion is likely to fall because of a record of conviction for similar offenses, we, as a review court, will scrutinize the record with great care to assure that the State’s conduct has been fair whenever an appellant, in an appropriate manner, claims lack of fairness.

We might add that we do this even when it is obvious from the record, evidence of the appellant’s guilt is overwhelming.

In this case this appellant, the evidence reveals, is a convicted rapist…