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State v. Heald

Citations

  • 393 A.2d 537
  • 1978 Me. LEXIS 997

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding prior bad act admissible to prove motive
  • \It is unrealistic to require the attorney for the State to be responsible for the production of any materials not within his possession ....\
  • evidence of prior attempted robbery by defendant of murder victim held admissible as relevant to issues of design, motive, knowledge and identity
  • “It is unrealistic to require the attorney for the State to be responsible for the production of any materials not within his possession . . . .”
  • statutory right to speedy trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McKusick, Wer-Nick, Archibald, Delahanty, Godfrey, Pomeroy, Nichols

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