Maine Supreme Judicial Court Decisions 2015
Date: December 31, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 165
Docket Number: 2015 ME 165
Justia Opinion Summary: The Scotts joined owned inland property located in the Town of Owls Head. The Edwardses jointly owned waterfront property near the Scotts’ property. A way extended across the Edwardses’ property, terminating in a…
Date: December 31, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 166
Docket Number: 2015 ME 166
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, Plaintiff, a church located in Portland, filed a complaint seeking a state court judgment based on a bankruptcy court judgment that it obtained in 1985, under a former name, against Defendant. During the…
Date: December 31, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 167
Docket Number: 2015 ME 167
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of murder and sentenced to forty-two years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court did not err in admitting into evidence an audio…
Date: December 24, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 164
Docket Number: 2015 ME 164
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of one count of gross sexual assault and fifteen counts of unlawful sexual contact. Defendant later filed a petition for post-conviction review, claiming that trial counsel was…
Date: December 22, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 162
Docket Number: 2015 ME 162
Justia Opinion Summary: After a nonjury trial, Defendant was convicted of operating under the influence (OUI) enhanced with one prior OUI conviction. Defendant appealed, arguing, among other things, that the trial court erred by allowing the…
Date: December 22, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 163
Docket Number: 2015 ME 163
Justia Opinion Summary: After Father threatened his ex-girlfriend with sharpened knives and included his seven-year old child in the assault, the Department of Health and Human Services petitioned the district court for a child protection…
Date: December 15, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 161
Docket Number: 2015 ME 161
Justia Opinion Summary: After Plaintiff was discharged from her employment at a nursing home owned by Defendant, Plaintiff commenced this action alleging that Defendant violated the Maine Whistleblowers’ Protection Act (WPA) by terminating her…
Date: December 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 160
Docket Number: 2015 ME 160
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of operating under the influence (OUI). The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding (1) the evidence was sufficient to support the jury’s verdict; (2) the trial court did not…
Date: December 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 156
Docket Number: 2015 ME 156
Justia Opinion Summary: The Bowers Wind Project proposed to place sixteen wind turbines within the boundary of an expedited permitting area, making them visible from multiple scenic resources of state or national significance. Champlain Wind,…
Date: December 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 157
Docket Number: 2015 ME 157
Justia Opinion Summary: Mother and Father met in Guatemala, and their child was born there. When the child was approximately fifteen months old, Father filed a complaint in Maine to establish parental rights and responsibilities. Mother was not…
Date: December 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 158
Docket Number: 2015 ME 158
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was indicted in Cumberland County for burglary and theft by unauthorized taking or transfer. Appellant pleaded nolo contendere to Class C theft by unauthorized taking or transfer. Appellant was subsequently…
Date: December 1, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 154
Docket Number: 2015 ME 154
Justia Opinion Summary: Grandmother filed a petition requesting that she be appointed the temporary guardian of Child. The probate court granted a temporary limited guardianship, concluding that Mother was temporarily unfit to parent.…
Date: December 1, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 155
Docket Number: 2015 ME 155
Justia Opinion Summary: William Googins committed an intentional assault of Eric Benson, which resulted in Benson’s death. Benson’s estate sued Googins in tort. Googins consented to a judgment in favor of the Estate and assigned to the Estate…
Date: November 24, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 150
Docket Number: 2015 ME 150
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of operating under the influence. Defendant was sentenced to four days in jail, an $800 fine, and a ninety-day license suspension. Defendant appealed, arguing that the evidence…
Date: November 24, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 151
Docket Number: 2015 ME 151
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff challenged three City of Saco decisions issued in connection with the construction of a car dealership by WWS Properties, LLC. Specifically at issue were (1) the City Planning Board’s and the Zoning Board of…
Date: November 24, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 152
Docket Number: 2015 ME 152
Justia Opinion Summary: Richard French was the owner of an undeveloped lot with no road access. When the Estate of Martha Gutzan denied French use of an access easement across property owned by the Estate, French brought this action to quiet…
Date: November 24, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 153
Docket Number: 2015 ME 153
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant entered a conditional plea of nolo contendere to operating under the influence. Defendant appealed, arguing that the suppression court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of a…
Date: November 19, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 149
Docket Number: 2015 ME 149
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of conviction, holding (1) the evidence was sufficient to support the theft conviction; (2)…
Date: November 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 146
Docket Number: 2015 ME 146
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, Mother and Father were divorced pursuant to a stipulated judgment that awarded Mother primary residence of the parties’ minor children. Father later moved to modify the divorce judgment, alleging that Mother was…
Date: November 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 147
Docket Number: 2015 ME 147
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with criminal operating under the influence. Defendant moved to suppress the evidence of his roadside interactions with a game warden from the moment the game warden parked his marked patrol vehicle…
Date: November 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 148
Docket Number: 2015 ME 148
Justia Opinion Summary: After a bench trial, Defendant was convicted of crimes stemming from his alleged illegal possession of digital images and videos depicting the sexual assault or exploitation of children. Defendant appealed, arguing that…
Date: November 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 144
Docket Number: 2015 ME 144
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury-waived trial, Defendant was convicted of aggravated assault and domestic violence assault. Defendant appealed, contending that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction for aggravated assault.…
Date: November 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 145
Docket Number: 2015 ME 145
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, Wells Fargo filed a foreclosure complaint against Jeffrey White. In 2014, based on an agreed-to judgment by the parties, the court entered a final judgment of foreclosure. Thereafter, White moved for relief from…
Date: November 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 142
Docket Number: 2015 ME 142
Justia Opinion Summary: Paul Gagnon was helping his neighbor, Keith Anthony, to fell a rotted tree at Anthony’s residence when the tree “exploded,” causing Gagnon to sustain several injuries. Gagnon filed a complaint against Anthony, alleging…
Date: November 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 143
Docket Number: 2015 ME 143
Justia Opinion Summary: Gerard Brady brought a claim against Cumberland County for employment retaliation pursuant to the Maine Whistleblowers’ Protection Act (WPA), alleging that disciplinary action taken against him by the County was…
Date: November 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 141
Docket Number: 2015 ME 141
Justia Opinion Summary: A Bank filed a residential foreclosure complaint against Appellant, alleging that Appellant executed a promissory note and a mortgage securing the note on certain property and that Appellant defaulted on the note. The…
Date: November 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 140
Docket Number: 2015 ME 140
Justia Opinion Summary: Wife was a passenger on a motorcycle operated by Husband when she was injured in an accident. At the time, Wife and Husband were named insureds on a motorcycle insurance policy from Insurer. Wife filed a complaint…
Date: October 29, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 137
Docket Number: 2015 ME 137
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of one count of unlawful sexual assault. Defendant later filed a petition for post-conviction review, alleging that his trial counsel failed to provide effective representation…
Date: October 29, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 138
Docket Number: 2015 ME 138
Justia Opinion Summary: Following a hearing on a petition to terminate Mother’s parental rights to her daughter, the district court entered a judgment terminating Mother’s parental rights, finding that Mother was unable to protect the child…
Date: October 29, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 139
Docket Number: 2015 ME 139
Justia Opinion Summary: Following a hearing on a petition filed by the Department of Health and Human Services to terminate Mother and Father’s parental rights to their son, the district court found three grounds of unfitness as to Mother, that…
Date: October 22, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 135
Docket Number: 2015 ME 135
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff purchased a former school property from the Town of Dexter for future redevelopment, and the Town initially supported Plaintiff’s redevelopment efforts. After Plaintiff contested the Town’s tax assessment of…
Date: October 22, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 136
Docket Number: 2015 ME 136
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2013, the district granted the parties in this case a divorce. The judgment provided that the parties were to share many parental rights and responsibilities and awarded primary residence of one child to Father and…
Date: October 20, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 133
Docket Number: 2015 ME 133
Justia Opinion Summary: Husband and Wife were divorced in 2011 by a judgment of the district court that incorporated a settlement agreement. Based on that agreement, Husband was ordered to pay Wife spousal support In 2012, the court approved…
Date: October 20, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 134
Docket Number: 2015 ME 134
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, John Flynn joined the law firm of Daniel G. Lilley Law Office, P.A. (LLO). In 2011, Flynn left LLO to open his own practice. LLO and Daniel Lilley subsequently filed a complaint against Flynn seeking a judicial…
Date: October 15, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 132
Docket Number: 2015 ME 132
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, Mother filed a motion to modify a parental rights and responsibilities order requesting recalculation of child support. By agreement, the district court reduced Mother’s child support obligation to $100 per…
Date: October 13, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 129
Docket Number: 2015 ME 129
Justia Opinion Summary: After a nonjury trial, the trial court convicted Defendant of operating while his license was suspended or revoked and sentenced him to thirty days in jail. Defendant appealed, arguing that the trial court did not have…
Date: October 13, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 130
Docket Number: 2015 ME 130
Justia Opinion Summary: Father appealed the termination of his parental rights to his two children after the district court found, by clear and convincing evidence, all four statutory grounds of parental unfitness and that termination was in…
Date: October 13, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 131
Docket Number: 2015 ME 131
Justia Opinion Summary: Child was born to Mother while Mother was married to Father. Father was not Child’s biological father. Mother and Father subsequently divorced. Father later filed a motion for determination of de facto parent status in…
Date: October 6, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 128
Docket Number: 2015 ME 128
Justia Opinion Summary: Brian Bailey filed a Me. R. Civ. P. 80C appeal from a decision of the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) setting Bailey’s 2014 elver fishing quota at four pounds. The basis for the quota was confirmed on March…
Date: September 22, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 126
Docket Number: 2015 ME 126
Justia Opinion Summary: After almost five years of litigation, the probate court issued its final judgment in the formal testate proceeding concerning the estate of Mildred D. MacComb. James Richman appealed. The Supreme Judicial Court rejected…
Date: September 22, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 127
Docket Number: 2015 ME 127
Justia Opinion Summary: BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP filed a complaint for foreclosure against Scott and Kristina Greenleaf. Bank of America, N.A. (the Bank) was substituted for BAC after the entities merged. After a trial, the court entered a…
Date: September 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 125
Docket Number: 2015 ME 125
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1973, the City of South Portland issued a variance to Kay Loring that brought her parcel of land, which was previously nonconforming, into dimensional conformity. For purposes of land use regulation, Loring’s 4,703…
Date: September 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 121
Docket Number: 2015 ME 121
Justia Opinion Summary: Lawrence Tardiff and Katherine Sullivan were divorced pursuant to a divorce judgment after the parties reached a settlement agreement. The judgment provided that the primary residence of the parties’ minor child would be…
Date: September 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 122
Docket Number: 2015 ME 122
Justia Opinion Summary: Melanie Steadman was the biological daughter of Steven Pagels. After Steadman left her family’s home she commenced this action, asserting claims for sexual assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional…
Date: September 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 123
Docket Number: 2015 ME 123
Justia Opinion Summary: After a hearing, the district court terminated the parental rights of Father to his minor child. The Supreme Judicial Court (1) affirmed the judgment as to termination of Father’s parental rights, holding that the court…
Date: September 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 124
Docket Number: 2015 ME 124
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of manslaughter and aggravated leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment, holding (1) the trial court did…
Date: September 1, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 119
Docket Number: 2015 ME 119
Justia Opinion Summary: David Sullivan and Zoe Rockwood were divorced after a contested hearing. Sullivan later filed a motions to modify and enforce the divorce judgment. In his motion to modify, Sullivan argued that his spousal support…
Date: September 1, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 120
Docket Number: 2015 ME 120
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs owned most of Mouse Island in the Town of Southport in common with Defendants. Plaintiffs filed a complaint for equitable partition. Defendants counterclaimed. The superior court entered summary judgment in…
Date: August 25, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 118
Docket Number: 2015 ME 118
Justia Opinion Summary: Father and Mother were the parents of a minor child. In 2004, the district court entered a parental rights and responsibilities order granting the parties shared parental rights and responsibilities and shared primary…
Date: August 20, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 117
Docket Number: 2015 ME 117
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of elevated aggravated assault. Defendant was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison for the elevated aggravated assault and a concurrent six months in prison for the…
Date: August 18, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 114
Docket Number: 2015 ME 114
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury-waived trial, Defendant was convicted of domestic violence assault and assault. The convictions stemmed from an altercation with Defendant’s ex-girfriend and his stepdaughter. Defendant appealed, arguing…
Date: August 18, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 116
Docket Number: 2015 ME 116
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants executed a note and mortgage deed in favor of a third party, and after several transactions, all rights created by the instruments were assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Defendants later defaulted, and Wells…
Date: August 18, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 117
Docket Number: 2015 ME 117
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was found guilty of elevated aggravated assault. The trial court sentenced Appellant to serve twenty-two years in prison. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the conviction on direct appeal.…
Date: August 18, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 115
Docket Number: 2015 ME 115
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of tampering with a victim, aggravated furnishing of scheduled drugs, and endangering the welfare of a child. Defendant appealed, arguing that the trial court erred by denying…
Date: August 13, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 112
Docket Number: 2015 ME 112
Justia Opinion Summary: Kevin Collins, a prison inmate, filed three grievances against the Department of Corrections relating to food services and the prison’s telephone system. The Department denied the grievances. Collins subsequently filed a…
Date: August 13, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 113
Docket Number: 2015 ME 113
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was an order of the Maine Public Utilities Commission approving an alternative rate plan (ARP) for Bangor Gas Company, LLC. The Maine Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) and Bucksport Mill, LLC…
Date: August 11, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 108
Docket Number: 2015 ME 108
Justia Opinion Summary: Bank of America brought this foreclosure action against Marianne Gregor. Homeward Residential, Inc. was later substituted as plaintiff. The district court entered judgment for Gregor, determining that Homeward…
Date: August 11, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 109
Docket Number: 2015 ME 109
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty in federal court to sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography. Before sentencing, a state grand jury indicted Defendant on thirteen counts of gross sexual assault.…
Date: August 11, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 110
Docket Number: 2015 ME 110
Justia Opinion Summary: The district court concluded that Mother placed her child in circumstances of jeopardy, finding that Mother’s actions caused at least a threat of serious harm to the child and that the child had been deprived of…
Date: August 11, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 111
Docket Number: 2015 ME 111
Justia Opinion Summary: While he was an inmate, Defendant was charged with ten counts of assaulting an officer. Defendant was found not criminally responsible by reason by mental disease or defect and was ordered committed to the custody of the…
Date: August 6, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 104
Docket Number: 2015 ME 104
Justia Opinion Summary: The trial court entered summary judgment in favor of Defendants on Plaintiff’s claims for wrongful use of civil proceedings and abuse of process. Plaintiff appealed, arguing that the trial court erred in concluding that…
Date: August 6, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 105
Docket Number: 2015 ME 105
Justia Opinion Summary: Pamela Jensen filed for divorce from Larry Jensen after almost thirty-five years of marriage. After attending mediation, the parties entered into a settlement agreement that purported to distribute all of the marital and…
Date: August 6, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 106
Docket Number: 2015 ME 106
Justia Opinion Summary: Three-year-old N.O. handled her parents’ loaded firearm and accidentally shot herself while her older siblings, P.O. and J.O., were present in the home. Mother was at work and Father was doing other things in the home at…
Date: August 4, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 100
Docket Number: 2015 ME 100
Justia Opinion Summary: After a hearing, the district court terminated Father’s parental rights pursuant to Me. Rev. Stat. 22, 4055. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding (1) the district court did not improperly terminate Father’s…
Date: August 4, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 101
Docket Number: 2015 ME 101
Justia Opinion Summary: Libby O’Brien Kingsley & Champion, LLC (LOKC) filed a complaint for breach of contract against Sharon Blanchard and simultaneously filed a motion for approval of attachment and trustee process against Blanchard’s…
Date: August 4, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 102
Docket Number: 2015 ME 102
Justia Opinion Summary: Husband filed a divorce action in Maine. At the time, there was an action for child custody and child and spousal support pending in the Virginia courts that was filed by Wife. Wife moved to dismiss Husband’s action. The…
Date: August 4, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 103
Docket Number: 2015 ME 103
Justia Opinion Summary: After a formal investigation, the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices determined that the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) - a national nonprofit advocacy corporation “dedicated to preserving…
Date: August 4, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 99
Docket Number: 2015 ME 99
Justia Opinion Summary: The Workers’ Compensation Board imposed a $30,000 penalty on Nale Holyoke and his construction company (collectively, Holyoke) for violating the insurance coverage requirements of the Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA). The…
Date: July 30, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 97
Docket Number: 2015 ME 97
Justia Opinion Summary: Christine Violette filed a complaint for divorce from Randy Violette. The district court entered a divorce judgment granting the parties a divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable marital differences. The Supreme…
Date: July 30, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 98
Docket Number: 2015 ME 98
Justia Opinion Summary: A district elementary school principal interpreted an educational policy to mean that elementary school teachers were expected to be present in their classrooms ten minutes before the start of the instructional day. The…
Date: July 28, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 93
Docket Number: 2015 ME 93
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services filed a petition to terminate the parental rights of Mother to her child, I.R. After a hearing, the district court terminated Mother’s parental rights to I.R., finding that…
Date: July 28, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 94
Docket Number: 2015 ME 94
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services filed a petition for child protection regarding L.T. alleging that Father created jeopardy through neglect, emotional abuse, and physical abuse. The Father and the Department…
Date: July 28, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 95
Docket Number: 2015 ME 95
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services filed a petition seeking a general public guardianship over Colleen McIntosh, alleging that McIntosh’s diagnosis of chronic paranoid schizophrenia rendered her incapacitated.…
Date: July 28, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 96
Docket Number: 2015 ME 96
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of tampering with a juror and violating a condition of release. The trial court imposed a sentence of two years in prison. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding that the…
Date: July 23, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 90
Docket Number: 2015 ME 90
Justia Opinion Summary: G.F., a juvenile, was adjudicated to have committed an assault. The district court committed G.F., who was thirteen years old at the time, to the Department of Corrections Mountain View Youth Development Center for an…
Date: July 23, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 91
Docket Number: 2015 ME 91
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was indicted on one count of unlawfully trafficking in scheduled drugs and one count of illegal importation of scheduled drugs. Defendant filed a motion to suppress as evidence illegal drugs seized from him by…
Date: July 21, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 88
Docket Number: 2015 ME 88
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1989, Appellant was convicted of kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder. In 2008, Appellant filed a motion for a new trial pursuant to Maine’s amended DNA analysis statute. After a hearing, the superior court denied…
Date: July 21, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 89
Docket Number: 2015 ME 89
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, Jennifer Young filed a complaint for divorce from Michael Young. After a hearing, the district court entered a divorce judgment that granted Jennifer sole parental rights and responsibilities for the children,…
Date: July 16, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 86
Docket Number: 2015 ME 86
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of assault on an officer, violation of a protective order, and refusing to submit to arrest. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of conviction, holding that the…
Date: July 16, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 87
Docket Number: 2015 ME 87
Justia Opinion Summary: After the trial court denied Defendant’s motion to suppress evidence derived from internet service provider (ISP) records that the State obtained with a grand jury subpoena, Defendant entered a conditional guilty plea to…
Date: July 14, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 84
Docket Number: 2015 ME 84
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff was injured while working at a paper mill. Plaintiff hired Defendant, an attorney, to represent her in her workers’ compensation claim. The Workers’ Compensation Board awarded Plaintiff, still represented by…
Date: July 14, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 85
Docket Number: 2015 ME 85
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of several counts of unlawful sexual contact, criminal attempt, visual sexual aggression against a child, sexual misconduct with a child under twelve, and unlawful sexual…
Date: July 9, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 83
Docket Number: 2015 ME 83
Justia Opinion Summary: Father and Mother were divorced by a judgment entered in 2006. Mother was awarded sole parental rights and responsibilities and primary residence of the parties' three children. Father subsequently filed several motions…
Date: July 7, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 81
Docket Number: 2015 ME 81
Justia Opinion Summary: John Boddy and Amy Dickens were divorced by a judgment that awarded Dickens primary residence of the parties’ child and required Boddy to pay weekly child support. Boddy later filed a second motion to modify requesting…
Date: July 7, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 82
Docket Number: 2015 ME 82
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of the Class C charge of sexual abuse of a minor. On appeal, Defendant challenged the admission of testimony of the victim’s mother indicating when the victim told her what had…
Date: July 2, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 80
Docket Number: 2015 ME 80
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a complaint against Bruce, Cynthia, and Rodney Pooler seeing to establish the locations of common boundaries among three properties. The parties settled their claims, and the superior court entered a…
Date: June 30, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 79
Docket Number: 2015 ME 79
Justia Opinion Summary: After a contested hearing, the district court entered a jeopardy order finding that Father had exposed K.M., his child, to verbally violent confrontations and that Father’s unstable mental health placed K.M. at risk of…
Date: June 23, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 78
Docket Number: 2015 ME 78
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of two counts of gross sexual assault. Defendant appealed, arguing that his due process rights were violated by the State’s failure to preserve a recording of a police…
Date: June 18, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 75
Docket Number: 2015 ME 75
Justia Opinion Summary: During a party hosted by Delta Tau Delta’s (DTD) Gamma Nu chapter at its DTD fraternity house located on the University of Maine’s Orono campus, Plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Joshua Clukey and prevented from…
Date: June 18, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 76
Docket Number: 2015 ME 76
Justia Opinion Summary: Marc Chamberlain was the father of two children who had been the care of their maternal grandmother for several years before and following the death of their mother. The children’s maternal grandmother and their maternal…
Date: June 18, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 77
Docket Number: 2015 ME 77
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of burglary and theft by unauthorized taking or transfer. Defendant was sentenced to two years and six months’ confinement on the burglary charge and a concurrent six-month…
Date: June 18, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 78
Docket Number: 2015 ME 78
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of two counts of gross sexual assault. Defendant appealed, arguing that his due process rights were violated by the State’s failure to preserve a recording of a police…
Date: June 16, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 73
Docket Number: 2015 ME 73
Justia Opinion Summary: The dispute in this case involved the continuing existence, scope, and extent of easements over two roads leading to the beach or ocean in Kennebunk. In the Supreme Court’s opinion issued on the first appeal, the trial…
Date: June 16, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 74
Docket Number: 2015 ME 74
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of murder. After a sentencing hearing, Defendant was sentenced to thirty-eight years’ incarceration and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,261. Defendant…
Date: June 9, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 70
Docket Number: 2015 ME 70
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of tampering with a witness, and on that basis, of violating a condition of release. Defendant appealed, arguing that the indictment was insufficient to inform him of the…
Date: June 9, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 71
Docket Number: 2015 ME 71
Justia Opinion Summary: After hearing what he described as a diesel-powered dump truck pass by his home one snowy morning in November, Plaintiff discovered that his mailbox had been damaged. Plaintiff filed a small-claims action against P&K…
Date: June 9, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 72
Docket Number: 2015 ME 72
Justia Opinion Summary: After a bench trial, Defendant was found guilty of attempted theft by deception and two counts of tampering with public records or information. Defendant appealed, arguing that her conduct did not constitute a violation…
Date: May 21, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 68
Date: May 21, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 69
Docket Number: 2015 ME 69
Justia Opinion Summary: George Stanley filed a complaint against the Town of Greene alleging that the Town was interfering with his flea market business on his property by denying him a license. The Town counterclaimed against Stanley, seeking…
Date: May 19, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 66
Date: May 19, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 67
Docket Number: 2015 ME 67
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of domestic violence assault. Defendant appealed, arguing that his right to confront witnesses against him under the Confrontation Clauses of the United States and Maine…
Date: May 19, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 68
Docket Number: 2015 ME 68
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006, Appellant injured his left hand while working as a mechanic. Thereafter, the Maine Employers Mutual Insurance Company (MEMIC) began paying Appellant weekly workers’ compensation benefits. Appellant received…
Date: May 14, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 65
Docket Number: 2015 ME 65
Justia Opinion Summary: John and Judith Monahan were married in 1976. In 2011, John filed a complaint for divorce. After a final divorce hearing held in 2014, the district court made several factual findings. The court then entered an initial…
Date: May 14, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 66
Docket Number: 2015 ME 66
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2013, Molly Jandreau filed a complaint for divorce from Daniel LaChance. The district court ordered LaChance to pay Jandreau $230 weekly in child support and divided the marital assets and liabilities. Jandreau…
Date: May 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 58
Date: May 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 59
Docket Number: 2015 ME 59
Justia Opinion Summary: When Mason Station, LLC failed to pay assessed property taxes on multiple properties in the Town of Wiscasset, the Town filed a complaint against Mason Station for taxes owed on those properties and on certain personal…
Date: May 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 60
Docket Number: 2015 ME 60
Justia Opinion Summary: Roland Gerrish created a trust consisting of certain property. The trust instrument provided that Julie and Shirley Gauthier would be the remainder beneficiaries upon Roland’s death. When Roland died, Shirley and…
Date: May 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 61
Docket Number: 2015 ME 61
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2013, Plaintiffs filed a complaint for statutory nuisance against Defendants, their neighbors, alleging that Defendants’ 2004 construction of a new home and garage resulted in damage to Plaintiffs’ home. Defendants…
Date: May 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 62
Docket Number: 2015 ME 62
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury-waived trial, Defendant was convicted of elevated aggravated assault, 17-A Me. Rev. Stat. 208-B(1)(A); elevated aggravated assault, 17-A, Me. Rev. Stat. 208-B(1)(B); and aggravated assault, Me. Rev. Stat.…
Date: May 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 63
Docket Number: 2015 ME 63
Justia Opinion Summary: After credit card fraud was discovered on vacations that Beth Rogers, a travel agent, had booked, Plaintiffs, two families, each filed a complaint against Mark Travel Corporation alleging breach of contract, economic…
Date: May 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 64
Docket Number: 2015 ME 64
Justia Opinion Summary: A New Jersey court entered a default judgment against Gawayne Dawson and for Safety Insurance Group. Safety Insurance subsequently sought enforcement of the judgment in Maine. The district court entered the New Jersey…
Date: May 7, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 52
Docket Number: 2015 ME 52
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to one year in jail and one year of probation for each of the assault counts, to be served consecutively. As a condition of probation,…
Date: May 7, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 53
Docket Number: 2015 ME 53
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) approved Fox Islands Wind’s (Fox Island) application for certification to build and operate a small-scale wind energy development project and issued a certification with a…
Date: May 7, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 54
Docket Number: 2015 ME 54
Justia Opinion Summary: Donald Paradis applied for and obtained a building permit to construct a two-car garage on property in the Town of Peru. After Paradis constructed the garage, the Town sent Paradis a notice of violation, stating that the…
Date: May 7, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 55
Docket Number: 2015 ME 55
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of his second offense of failing to comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Defendant appealed, arguing that the superior court erred in excluding…
Date: May 7, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 56
Docket Number: 2015 ME 56
Justia Opinion Summary: After a bench trial, Defendant was convicted of violating Me. Rev. Stat. 12, 6575-G, which makes it a Class D crime to fish for or take elvers within 150 feet of a dam with a fishway or within 150 feet of a fishway.…
Date: May 7, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 57
Docket Number: 2015 ME 57
Justia Opinion Summary: A police officer certified to operate the Intoxilyzer, a self-contained breath-alcohol testing apparatus, used the device to test Defendant’s breath-alcohol content. Defendant was subsequently charged with criminal…
Date: May 7, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 58
Docket Number: 2015 ME 58
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, the district court entered an order protecting Jana Gehrke, Chad Gehrke’s ex-wife, and the parties’ sons. Thereafter, the order was twice modified, further constraining Chad’s contact with the children. In 2013,…
Date: May 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 46
Docket Number: 2015 ME 46
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of theft by receiving stolen property. The superior court sentenced Defendant to fourteen days in fail and a $500 fine. Defendant appealed, arguing that his sentence was…
Date: May 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 47
Docket Number: 2015 ME 47
Justia Opinion Summary: The Town of Starks Planning Board approved an application for site plan approval to build and operate a cellular telephone tower in Starks. Harry and Cindy Brown appealed the decision. The Town of Starks Board of Appeals…
Date: May 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 48
Docket Number: 2015 ME 48
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2014, Mother filed a complaint seeking a protection order against Father for herself and their two children. After a hearing, the district court found that Father had abused Mother and issued a protection order for…
Date: May 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 49
Docket Number: 2015 ME 49
Justia Opinion Summary: Robert and Carol Rice filed a complaint against their neighbors, James and Carol Cook, alleging, inter alia, breach of contract regarding the parties’ shared boundary line and seeking a declaratory judgment and…
Date: May 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 50
Docket Number: 2015 ME 50
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, a convicted felon, completed serving his sentences with a termination of his probation in 2007. In 2013, Appellant submitted an application to the Department of Public Safety for a black powder permit. The…
Date: May 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 51
Docket Number: 2015 ME 51
Justia Opinion Summary: Wayne Perkins applied to the Ogunquit Planning Board seeking site plan review and design review approval to convert his garage into a lobster pound. The Board approved Perkins’s application without requiring Perkins to…
Date: April 30, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 44
Docket Number: 2015 ME 44
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a former employee at the Maine Bureau of Insurance, an agency within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation (Department), sued the Department, alleging that she was fired in violation of the…
Date: April 30, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 45
Docket Number: 2015 ME 45
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of murder and sentenced to forty-five years in prison. Defendant appealed, arguing that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress statements he made to law…
Date: April 28, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 43
Docket Number: 2015 ME 43
Justia Opinion Summary: In anticipation of renting an apartment from Sheldon Ashby, Jennifer Roussel gave Ashby a security deposit. Roussel never moved into the apartment and sought the return of her security deposit. When Ashby did not respond…
Date: April 23, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 42
Docket Number: 2015 ME 42
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, an attorney practicing in Maine, was counsel to Plaintiff, and then to his estate, in a suit against Plaintiff’s conservator and Plaintiff’s brother. The suit resulted in a judgment against Plaintiff.…
Date: April 21, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 40
Docket Number: 2015 ME 40
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, Defendant pleaded guilty to unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs. In 2012, Defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs and admitted to a probation violation. Defendant was…
Date: April 21, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 41
Docket Number: 2015 ME 41
Justia Opinion Summary: After a bench trial, the trial court convicted Defendant of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs and ordered Defendant to forfeit his firearm to the State. Defendant filed a notice of appeal but did not request…
Date: April 9, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 39
Docket Number: 2015 ME 39
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of aggravated assault and domestic violence terrorizing. Defendant appealed, arguing, among other things, that the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury that it was…
Date: March 26, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 38
Docket Number: 2015 ME 38
Justia Opinion Summary: Mother’s first two children were removed from her care due to neglect. Mother’s third child lived with his paternal grandmother. Mother’s parental rights to her fourth child were terminated when the child was twelve…
Date: March 24, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 36
Docket Number: 2015 ME 36
Justia Opinion Summary: All parties in this case were practicing Maine attorneys or law firms that asserted various theories of entitlement to all or part of a $1.24 million attorney fee generated in a civil judgment in another matter. In both…
Date: March 24, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 37
Docket Number: 2015 ME 37
Justia Opinion Summary: Six days after premature twins were born, the Department of Health and Human Services petitioned for a child protection order, alleging that the twins were in circumstances of immediate risk of serious harm based on…
Date: March 19, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 34
Docket Number: 2015 ME 34
Justia Opinion Summary: After a hearing, the district court terminated Mother’s parental rights to her minor child, finding, by clear and convincing evidence, that Mother was unwilling or unable to protect the child from jeopardy and that these…
Date: March 19, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 35
Docket Number: 2015 ME 35
Justia Opinion Summary: After a bench trial, Defendant was convicted of attempted kidnapping and assault. Defendant appealed, arguing, among other things, that the trial court erred in analyzing the defense of mental abnormality. The Supreme…
Date: March 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 28
Docket Number: 2015 ME 28
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to burglary and other crimes. Prior to sentencing, Defendant filed a motion to withdraw his pleas and his admission, alleging that his diagnosis of kleptomania in a presentence mental evaluation…
Date: March 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 29
Docket Number: 2015 ME 29
Justia Opinion Summary: When Mark Chartier and Lisa Heward were married, Chartier purchased an annuity policy from Farm Family Life Insurance Co. for which he named Heward as primary beneficiary. Heward later requested the cash value of the…
Date: March 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 30
Docket Number: 2015 ME 30
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of aggravated trafficking of scheduled drugs and refusal to submit to arrest or detention. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment, holding (1) the trial court did not…
Date: March 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 31
Docket Number: 2015 ME 31
Justia Opinion Summary: In two criminal cases, Defendant was indicted on several charges, including unlawful trafficking in synthetic hallucinogenic drugs and conspiracy to commit unlawful trafficking in synthetic hallucinogenic drugs.…
Date: March 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 32
Docket Number: 2015 ME 32
Justia Opinion Summary: Wayne and Michelle McClellan applied for a conditional use permit to build a disc-golf course in the City of Saco on property abutting a campground owned by Fred Fitanides. The Saco Planning Board voted to grant…
Date: March 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 33
Docket Number: 2015 ME 33
Justia Opinion Summary: The district court entered a divorce judgment awarding Wife spousal support and child support and declined to award her retroactive child support or attorney fees. Wife appealed, raising several allegations of error.…
Date: March 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 22
Docket Number: 2015 ME 22
Justia Opinion Summary: In this “cold case,” Defendant was charged with a murder committed fifteen years before the trial. After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of intentional or knowing murder. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1)…
Date: March 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 23
Docket Number: 2015 ME 23
Justia Opinion Summary: Between 2002 and 2008, Defendants applied for, were found qualified for, and lived in Section 8 housing, for which the local housing authority paid a substantial rent subsidy to the landlord. Throughout this time,…
Date: March 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 24
Docket Number: 2015 ME 24
Justia Opinion Summary: After a termination hearing, the district court terminated Father’s parental rights to his three children after finding, by clear and convincing evidence, that Father was unfit and that termination was in the children’s…
Date: March 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 25
Docket Number: 2015 ME 25
Justia Opinion Summary: After a termination hearing, the district court terminated Father’s parental rights to his two children. Father appealed, arguing that the court’s denial of his motion to continue improperly deprived him of his right to…
Date: March 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 26
Docket Number: 2015 ME 26
Justia Opinion Summary: The superior court entered a judgment of foreclosure in favor of Plaintiff. Defendant appealed, arguing that the court abused its discretion or committed legal or factual error in several respects. The Supreme Court…
Date: March 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 20
Docket Number: 2015 ME 20
Justia Opinion Summary: After a termination hearing at which Father failed to appear, the district court terminated Father’s parental rights to his child. Father appealed the termination order. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the court…
Date: March 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 21
Docket Number: 2015 ME 21
Justia Opinion Summary: James Stanley, Barbara Stanley and Northeast Marine Services, Inc. (collectively, “Stanley”) were parties to a binding arbitration with Michael Liberty and five corporations under his control (“the Liberty corporate…
Date: March 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 18
Docket Number: 2015 ME 18
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of aggravated assault. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment, holding (1) although the jury should have received complete instructions before beginning deliberations,…
Date: March 3, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 19
Docket Number: 2015 ME 19
Justia Opinion Summary: In this bankruptcy case, Bank of America obtained a junior foreclosure judgment and received the Debtor’s equity of redemption for a senior mortgage. Bank of America did not sell this interest within the specified time…
Date: February 17, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 17
Docket Number: 2015 ME 17
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, Amy Chartier executed a promissory note, and as security, Amy and her husband, Ronald, executed a mortgage encumbering their residential property. The note and mortgage were eventually assigned to CitiMortgage,…
Date: February 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 15
Docket Number: 2015 ME 15
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of one count of unlawful contact as a Class B offense and five counts of unlawful sexual contact as a Class C offense. During the trial, the prosecutor noticed that although…
Date: February 12, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 16
Docket Number: 2015 ME 16
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, the district court issued a judgment establishing shared parental rights and responsibilities and shared primary physical residence of the child of Flint Hutchinson and Christina Bruyere. One year later,…
Date: February 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 13
Docket Number: 2015 ME 13
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was two adjacent beachfront lots - lot 113 and lot 114. In 1989, as a result of a merger clause in a zoning ordnance, the lots were merged into a single, nonconforming, grandfathered lot. Despite…
Date: February 10, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 14
Docket Number: 2015 ME 14
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, Grandparents filed a petition to establish visitation rights with their grandson. The district court entered an order setting out a visitation schedule. In 2014, Grandparents filed a motion to modify the…
Date: February 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 1
Docket Number: 2015 ME 12
Justia Opinion Summary: In May 2010, the Bar Harbor Appeals Board issued two decisions requiring the Bar Harbor Planning Board to approve a site plan for construction of a hotel on land abutting land owned by the Witham Family Limited…
Date: February 5, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 12
Date: January 29, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 10
Docket Number: 2015 ME 10
Justia Opinion Summary: Father killed Mother in their oldest son’s immediate presence. The probate court terminated Father’s parental rights pursuant to 22 Me. Rev. Stat. 4055(1)(B)(2)(a). The court presumed jeopardy against Father with respect…
Date: January 29, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 11
Docket Number: 2015 ME 11
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006, Patricia Voter and Dexter Voter divorced. The divorce judgment required Dexter to pay Patricia general spousal support in a certain amount per month until he retired, when the amount of his spousal support…
Date: January 29, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 6
Docket Number: 2015 ME 6
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, Maria Viola filed for divorce from Gordon Viola. The district court entered a divorce judgment ordering Gordon to pay spousal support and attorney fees to Maria. The court also divided the marital assets and…
Date: January 29, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 7
Docket Number: 2015 ME 7
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with unlawful trafficking of scheduled drugs and seeking criminal forfeiture of cash discovered during the search of his vehicle by Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) agents. Defendant filed a…
Date: January 29, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 8
Docket Number: 2015 ME 8
Justia Opinion Summary: Mother and Father were the biological parents of a daughter born in 2010. The district court awarded primary residence of the child to Mother, who intended to move to Florida with the child. Father appealed, contending,…
Date: January 29, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 9
Docket Number: 2015 ME 9
Justia Opinion Summary: Christopher MacMahon and Elizabeth Tinkham, who had two daughters together, divorced in 2009. McMahon was granted primary physical residence of the girls, but no child support was awarded to either party. In 2012, the…
Date: January 22, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 4
Docket Number: 2015 ME 4
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, Gregory Sullwold died of a heart attack while exercising on a treadmill in his home. Sullwood was employed by the Salvation Army at the time of his death, and the Salvation Army permitted Sullwold to work…
Date: January 22, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 5
Docket Number: 2015 ME 5
Justia Opinion Summary: When the father of Daniel Albert and Carlton Albert died, the father’s company was left in trust for the benefit of Daniel and Carlton. In 1984, Daniel bought the land from company and later conveyed it to Carlton in…
Date: January 13, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 3
Docket Number: 2015 ME 3
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2003, John Doe XLVI pleaded guilty to and was convicted of possession of sexually explicit material. When Doe was sentenced, possession of sexually explicit material was not a sex offense requiring registration under…
Date: January 6, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 1
Docket Number: 2015 ME 1
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of perjury. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court did not abuse its discretion by allowing the State to introduce testimony regarding Defendant’s silence…
Date: January 6, 2015
Citation: 2015 ME 2
Docket Number: 2015 ME 2
Justia Opinion Summary: Jeffrey Wyman was charged with operating under the influence (OUI) and, after a jury trial, found not guilty. Jeffrey and his son, David Wyman (Defendant), both testified during the OUI trial. The instant perjury case…
Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. You should read the full case before relying on it for legal research purposes.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
