State v. Fournier

The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant of murder and imposing a forty-five-year sentence of incarceration, holding that the trial court did not err or abuse its discretion in the proceedings below.Specifically, the Supreme Judicial Court held that the trial court (1) did not abuse its discretion in the way it considered alternative suspect evidence; (2) did not abuse its discretion by excluding the opinion testimony of a Maine State Police detective; and (3) did not err in finding that Defendant had waived his religious privilege by repeating to his family members and law enforcement officers portions of statements that he had made to a pastor. View "State v. Fournier" on Justia Law