State v. Sholes

5 Citing cases

  1. State v. Nightingale

    2023 Me. 71 (Me. 2023)   Cited 1 times

    " Id. ¶ 38; see State v. Sholes, 2020 ME 35, ¶ 23, 227 A.3d 1129.

  2. State v. Footman

    2023 Me. 52 (Me. 2023)   Cited 1 times

    "We view the evidence, which supports the jury's verdict, in the light most favorable to the State." State v. Sholes, 2020 ME 35, ¶ 2, 227 A.3d 1129.

  3. State v. Penley

    2023 Me. 7 (Me. 2023)   Cited 4 times

    We also do not discern obvious error from the cumulative effect of the prosecutor's improper arguments about the Facebook data and about Bickford's statements of her fear and her plan to obtain a protection order. See State v. Sholes, 2020 ME 35, ¶ 9, 227 A.3d 1129; State v. Gould, 2012 ME 60, ¶¶ 16-17, 43 A.3d 952. C. Sentencing

  4. State v. Asante

    2020 Me. 90 (Me. 2020)   Cited 7 times
    Discussing deadly force and self-defense

    [¶2] The following facts are drawn from the evidence presented at trial, viewed in the light most favorable to the State. See State v. Sholes , 2020 ME 35, ¶ 2, 227 A.3d 1129. In October 2016, Marcus Asante traveled by car from Massachusetts to Maine to obtain $20,000 worth of marijuana from the victim.

  5. State v. Wai Chan

    2020 Me. 91 (Me. 2020)   Cited 24 times

    (Emphasis added.) [¶27] Viewed "in the overall context of the trial," State v. Sholes , 2020 ME 35, ¶ 20, 227 A.3d 1129 (quotation marks omitted), the first, third, and fourth statements did not rise to the level of misconduct because they were focused on the evidence that had been admitted, not on Chan's failure to present evidence of his innocence, see Glover , 558 F.3d at 76-79 ; Sousa , 2019 ME 171, ¶¶ 10-12, 222 A.3d 171 (concluding that a statement that there was "no evidence" that the defendant was experiencing delusions did not suggest that the defendant had a burden to present such evidence (quotation marks omitted)). [¶28] The prosecutor's second statement—in which he stated, "[T]he idea that somebody [else] could have done this, well, where's the evidence?"