Case Name: STATE of Maine v. Robert GOYETTE
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1988-06-20
Citations: 542 A.2d 1257
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE of Maine v. Robert GOYETTE.
Judges: Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, GLASSMAN, SCOLNIK and CLIFFORD, JJ.
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 542
Pages: 1257–1257

Head Matter:
STATE of Maine v. Robert GOYETTE.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.
Argued March 8, 1988.
Decided June 20, 1988.
Janet T. Mills, Dist. Atty., Craig E. Tum-er (orally), Asst. Dist. Atty., Auburn, for plaintiff.
Michael J. Welch (orally), Berman, Simmons & Goldberg, Lewiston, for defendant.
Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, GLASSMAN, SCOLNIK and CLIFFORD, JJ.
Nichols, J., sat at oral argument but retired before this opinion was certified.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.
Robert "Bubba" Goyette appeals from his conviction by a Superior Court jury (Androscoggin County) of Class C burglary, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 401 (1983), and Class E theft, id. § 353. Goyette fails to establish any abuse of discretion by the presiding justice in permitting the State to introduce under M.R.Evid. 609 evidence of three prior convictions solely for the purpose of impeaching Goyette's credibility as a witness. See State v. Hanscome, 459 A.2d 569, 572-73 (Me.1983). Goyette also fails in his argument based on a claimed inconsistency between Goyette's guilty verdict and the not guilty verdict given by the same jury to his codefendant tried along with him; the evidence implicating Goyette differed in significant respects from that implicating his codefendant.
The entry is:
Judgment affirmed.
All concurring.