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STATE v. FOSTER

379 A.2d 1219 (1977)

STATE of Maine v. Edward FOSTER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

December 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Leadbetter (orally), Fernand R. Larochelle, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, Henry N. Berry, III, Dist. Atty., Portland, for plaintiff.

Ray R. Pallas, Westbrook (orally), for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and POMEROY, WERNICK, ARCHIBALD, and GODFREY, JJ.

GODFREY, Justice.

Appellant Foster was indicted for "solicitation to murder," found guilty by a jury, and sentenced to jail. From the evidence, the jury was warranted in concluding that in 1974 Foster, then a policeman, engaged in a month-long effort to enlist fellow policemen in a "death squad" to eliminate certain chronic offenders by executing them. A number of meetings with three other policemen had resulted in selection...

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