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542 A.2d 1257

State v. Goyette

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided June 20, 1988

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1988-06-20

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1990

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Decided 1988-06-20

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¶1MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.

¶2Robert “Bubba” Goyette appeals from his conviction by a Superior Court jury (Androscoggin County) of Class C burglary, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 401 (1983), and Class E theft, id. § 353. Goyette fails to establish any abuse of discretion by the presiding justice in permitting the State to introduce under M.R.Evid. 609 evidence of three prior convictions solely for the purpose of impeaching Goyette’s credibility as a witness. See State v. Hanscome, 459 A.2d 569, 572-73 (Me.1983). Goyette also fails in his argument based on a claimed inconsistency between Goyette’s guilty verdict and the not guilty verdict given by the same jury to his codefendant tried along with him; the evidence implicating Goyette differed in significant respects from that implicating his codefendant.

¶3The entry is:

¶4Judgment affirmed.

¶5All concurring.

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