State of Maine v. Ethan C. Gervais

Summary

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Ethan C. Gervais’s convictions, holding that the trial court’s admission of Facebook messages, testimony about Gervais’s drug use, the State’s use of the term “victim” in closing argument, and the prosecutor’s personal‑opinion statements did not constitute reversible error. The court found the authentication of the messages was supported, the character evidence did not rise to obvious error, the victim reference was permissible or harmless, and the prosecutor’s comments were cured by a curative instruction.