Case Name: STATE of Maine v. Joseph W. WADMAN
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1986-03-24
Citations: 506 A.2d 1139
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE of Maine v. Joseph W. WADMAN.
Judges: Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ.
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 506
Pages: 1139–1139

Head Matter:
STATE of Maine v. Joseph W. WADMAN.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.
Argued March 12, 1986.
Decided March 24, 1986.
Michael Povich, Dist. Atty., Sophie L. Spurr (orally), Asst. Dist. Atty., Ellsworth, for the State.
Stern & Goldsmith, J. Hilary Billings (orally), Marshall A. Stern, Bangor, for defendant.
Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.
Joseph W. Wadman appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court, Hancock County, entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of unlawful trafficking in a schedule Z drug, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 1103 (Pamph. 1982). The record reveals adequate support for the finding that probable cause and exigent circumstances existed to justify the warrantless search of the entire van, that the presiding justice did not abuse his discretion in admitting for a limited purpose evidence of Wadman's prior involvement in the trafficking of marijuana, and that the jury rationally could have found beyond a reasonable doubt every element of the offense charged.
The entry is:
Judgment affirmed.
All concurring.