A federal appeals court has apparently ended the appeals of Dennis Deschaine, convicted of the 1988 murder and sexual assault of Sarah Cherry, then a 12-year-old from Bowdoin.
Since his first trail and through appeal after appeal, Dennis Deschaine has maintained his innocence. But a jury convicted him of sexually assaulting Sarah Cherry, stabbing her, and dumping her body in the woods near the Bowdoin home where she was babysitting. The State Supreme Court upheld his conviction. Motions for a new trial were denied.
This latest attempt to get a federal court to order a new trial was rejected unanimously by the three judge First Circuit Court of Appeals. The state attorney general’s office, in an email, says Deschaine has no further appeals in the court system so after nearly three decades, the case maybe be finally closed.
