Opinion ID: 2671020
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Heading: Martin is Convicted for the 2001 Offenses

Text: On February 5, 2002, a state grand jury returned a twocount indictment charging Martin with unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs. The indictment charged Martin with trafficking 3 The registration information was learned when Duquette transmitted the car's license plate number to an MDEA surveillance team in place. -4- heroin in connection with both the September 2001 offense and the October 2001 offense. Martin pleaded guilty to trafficking heroin on October 11, 2001, and as a result, the charge for the September 2001 offense was dismissed. Meanwhile federal proceedings were underway as well. On April 9, 2002, a federal grand jury in Bangor returned a one-count indictment charging Martin with possession with the intent to distribute heroin on September 27, 2001 -- i.e., for the September 2001 offense. Martin was arrested and charged by federal authorities. Martin pleaded guilty. On September 10, 2002, Martin was sentenced for the September 2001 offense by a federal judge (who was aware of the pending state charges) to a year and a day in prison, and three years' supervised release. The next day, on September 11, 2002, Martin was sentenced in state court for the October 2001 offense to a term of four years' imprisonment, all but one year of which was suspended, and three years' probation. With this backdrop in place, we fast forward a few years to the circumstances that gave rise to Martin's most recent conviction, from which this appeal stems.