BUCKSPORT
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Friday heard oral arguments in the appeal of a Bowdoin man who is serving a 47-year sentence for killing a Brunswick teenager in 2002 with the blunt end of a hatchet, then burying her in his mother’s backyard.
Justices considered whether Olland Reese, 29, convicted of murder in the death of 16-year-old Cody Green, should have a new trial because new DNA technology has made possible the testing of skin cells found on the duct tape that bound the girl’s wrists together.
The state’s high court convened in the Bucksport High School gym in the justices third and final stop on it annual fall road trip. Earlier this week, the court heard cases in Biddeford and Brunswick.
Reese’s attorney, Christopher MacLean of Camden, argued that a lower court judge erred by denying his postconviction motion for a new trial. Assistant Attorney General Donald Macomber disagreed, arguing that Superior Court Justice Thomas Warren ruled correctly. Macomber also said that the results of a new DNA test would not alter the “mountain of evidence” against Reese presented at his trial.
There is no timetable under which the court must issue its decisions.
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