Maine v. Ormsby
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of three counts of murder and one count of arson. The trial court imposed three concurrent life sentences on the murder convictions and a consecutive fifteen-year sentence on the arson conviction. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment and the sentences, holding that the trial court did not err in (1) denying Defendant's motion to suppress statements that he made to the police, as the confessions were made voluntarily and their admission at trial did not violate Defendant's Fifth Amendment rights; (2) declining to instruct the jury concerning the potential consequences of a verdict of not criminally responsible by reason of insanity; and (3) sentencing Defendant.
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