State of Maine v. Hillary Hemminger

Summary

The court affirmed Hemminger’s conviction and sentence, holding that the prospective juror was not impliedly biased because the juror’s father’s accident fifteen years earlier was not an extreme or extraordinary circumstance making impartial service unlikely. The court also held that the Constitution did not require independent perjury findings before a sentencing court considered its assessment that the defendant testified untruthfully, because that requirement derives from federal sentencing guidelines rather than the Constitution. No separate opinions were issued.