Opinion ID: 2265864
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: adoptive admission-michael

Text: The defendants also assert that the presiding justice erred in admitting against Michael Marshall Robert's statement, No one is going to take us in. The context of this statement is similar to that with which this Court was presented in State v. Kimball, 424 A.2d 684 (Me. 1981). In Kimball, we upheld the trial court's admission of an extra-judicial statement made by a codefendant in an active three-way conversation because the statement was merely corroborative and was repetitious of what the defendant had just said. 424 A.2d at 688. Similarly, Robert's statement, made in response to Michael Perry's suggestion that they turn themselves in, strongly corroborates Michael Marshall's previous statements that they had been involved in the murder and that [Michael Marshall's] problems were over. Thus, a reasonable jury could properly find that Michael had adopted Robert's statement, and the presiding justice did not err in admitting the statement through Michael Perry's testimony. [4]