PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is set to hear arguments in the appeal of a 73-year-old man convicted last year in the fatal shooting of a fellow lobsterman at a bee farm.
The Portland Press Herald reports (https://bit.ly/1PW0kGc ) attorneys representing Merrill Kimball claim that Justice Roland Cole made several errors during their client’s April 2015 murder trial stemming from the October 2013 death of Leon Kelley.
Kimball has never wavered in maintaining that he acted in self-defense when he shot Kelley three times at Brown’s Bee Farm in North Yarmouth. He claimed Kelley assaulted him and wouldn’t stop attacking.
The jury disagreed, and Kimball was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison for the crime in June 2015.
Maine’s high court will hear oral arguments in the appeal on Thursday.
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Information from: Portland Press Herald, https://www.pressherald.com
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