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Statutes > Maine > Title15 > Title15ch201sec0 > Title15sec1202Title 15: COURT PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL
Part 3: TRIALS
Chapter 201: GENERAL PROVISIONS
§1202. Postponement or continuance
The trial of any criminal case, except for a crime punishable by imprisonment for life, may be postponed by the court to a future day of the same term, or the jury may be discharged therefrom and the case continued, if justice will thereby be promoted.