Maine Revised Statutes
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14, § 5507 (2026)
Waiver of grounds not claimed; effect of prior petition of coram nobis or error
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SECTION HISTORY
PL 1979, c. 701, §2 (RP).
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1970–1988 · leading case: Younie v. State, 281 A.2d 446 (Me. 1971).
Younie v. State, 281 A.2d 446 (Me. 1971). “2d 12 (1964), subject to the further proposition that if the presiding Justice by applying the statute has denied counsel to a petitioner alleging himself to be indigent, the “waiver” provision of 14 M.R.S.A. § 5507 will be insufficient, ipso facto, to preclude consideration of…”
Presnell v. Kemp, 835 F.2d 1567 (11th Cir. 1988). “2d 194 (1972), the Supreme Court upheld the district court’s refusal to review a claim that the Maine courts declined to hear because the claim had been presented in a successive petition in violation of the Maine successive petition statute, Me.Rev.Stat.Ann. tit. 14, § 5507…”
Mottram v. Murch, 330 F. Supp. 51 (D. Me. 1971). “Section 5507 provides “[a] 11 grounds for relief claimed by a petitioner under this remedy must be raised by a petitioner in bis original or amended petition, and any grounds not so raised are waived unless the State or Federal Constitution otherwise requires or any justice on…”
Hutchins v. State, 265 A.2d 706 (Me. 1970). “By its terms 14 M.R.S.A. § 5507 requires that all grounds for relief claimed by the Petitioner under the remedy of habeas corpus must be raised in his original or amended petition and any grounds not so raised are waived unless the State or Federal Constitution otherwise…”
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