State v. O'HARA

ROBERTS, Justice.

Roy O’Hara appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in the Superior Court (Oxford County, Perkins, J.) convicting him of manslaughter, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 203(1)(A) (Supp.1992). Because the trial court denied O’Hara’s request that prospective jurors be questioned further about their relationships with the State’s law enforcement witnesses, we vacate the conviction.

At the end of June 1990, Roy O’Hara, a self-described novice with guns, was given a .38 caliber revolver by his wife’s grandmother to protect those living in their Norway home from a neighbor who had made…