State v. Preston

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there was no evidence in the record on which a justice, presiding over a hearing on a motion for a new trial, could base a finding of witness unavailability
• stating that newly discovered evidence that would be inadmissible at a new trial cannot change the result

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brown v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1991-08-23· cited 31×
• State v. Hassapelis
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1993-02-11· cited 17×
• State v. Ardolino
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1999-01-21· cited 9×
• State v. Modery
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1988-11-01· cited 2×
• State of Maine v. Jarae Lipscombe
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2025-06-03

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. O'Clair
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1972-06-14· cited 48×
• State v. McDonough
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-01-12· cited 43×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1980-05-28· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Colantoni
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-02-05· cited 30×
• State v. Gagne
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-12-12· cited 19×
• State v. Lord
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1983-04-15· cited 13×
• State v. Scholz
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-07-17· cited 11×
• State v. Terroni
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1970-10-21· cited 11×
• State v. Flaherty
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-06-25· cited 8×
• State v. Verrill
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1866-07-01· cited 3×