Case Name: STATE of Maine v. Christopher GRINDLE
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1988-10-21
Citations: 549 A.2d 370
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE of Maine v. Christopher GRINDLE.
Judges: Before McKUSICK, C.J., and WATHEN, GLASSMAN, CLIFFORD and HORNBY, JJ.
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 549
Pages: 370–370

Head Matter:
STATE of Maine v. Christopher GRINDLE.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.
Argued Sept. 22, 1988.
Decided Oct. 21, 1988.
R. Christopher Almy, Dist. Atty., Philip C. Worden (orally), Asst. Dist. Atty., Bangor, for the State.
Anthony J. Guinta (orally), Ellsworth, for defendant.
Before McKUSICK, C.J., and WATHEN, GLASSMAN, CLIFFORD and HORNBY, JJ.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.
Defendant, Christopher Grindle, appeals his convictions in Superior Court, (Penob-scot County; Beaulieu, J.), of five counts of burglary, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 401 (1988) and three counts of theft, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 353 (1983). The trial justice committed no abuse of discretion in permitting a witness to testify about a conversation he had with Grindle outside the courtroom at the end of the first day of trial. State v. McEachern, 431 A.2d 39, 43 (Me.1981); State v. Lagasse, 410 A.2d 537, 541 (Me.1980). The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the state, supports the jury's findings that the defendant committed the crimes of burglary and theft beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Barry, 495 A.2d 825, 826 (Me.1985).
The entry is:
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
All concurring.