Carine Reeves, the first person to stand trial for murder in Maine since courts were closed because of the pandemic, is found guilty in the 2017 killing of Sally Shaw.
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Prosecutor says murder defendant shot woman in Down East Maine over insults
Carine Reeves, the first person to go on trial for murder in Maine since the start of the pandemic, shot Sally Shaw because she’d insulted the mother of his children, Assistant Attorney General Megan Elam tells jurors.