State of Maine v. Robert J. Hart

Summary

The court affirmed Hart’s convictions entered after a conditional guilty plea. It held that the State’s superseding indictment did not create a reasonable likelihood of prosecutorial vindictiveness, Hart’s jail statements had already been excluded from the State’s case-in-chief, and the remaining double-jeopardy and Miranda claims failed. The court also concluded that Hart was not in custody when he made the challenged parking-lot statements.