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LAGASSE v. VESTAL

No. 81-1587.

671 F.2d 668 (1982)

Melvin B. LAGASSE, Jr., Petitioner, Appellant, v. Paul K. VESTAL, Jr., et al., Respondents, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 1, 1982.

Certiorari Denied June 14, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Chase, Medford, Mass., by appointment of the Court, for appellant.

Linda Sibery Crawford, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, Me., with whom Charles K. Leadbetter, Asst. Atty. Gen., Crim. Div., Appellate Section, Augusta, Me., on brief, for appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judge, BREYER, Circuit Judge.

Certiorari Denied June 14, 1982. See 102 S.Ct. 2939.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder after a jury trial in Superior Court, Androscoggin County, Maine. On appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, he argued unsuccessfully that the trial court's exclusion of testimony of the decedent's violent conduct toward his wife while under the influence of alcohol seriously undermined his theory of self-defense, and thereby violated his constitutional...

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