Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
State of Maine v. Germaine Page
November 30, 20232023 ME 73
Summary
The court upheld the discovery sanction because it fairly balanced the prejudice from the State's late disclosure against Page's decision to proceed without a continuance and did not prevent the State from rebutting or completing evidence that Page chose to present. The court declined to reach Page's fair-cross-section challenge because he neither preserved the issue during jury selection nor supplied the racial and ethnic data and statistical analysis needed for review. The court nevertheless vacated the one-year sentences for domestic violence assault and domestic violence terrorizing because those Class D offenses carried maximum terms of less than one year.