Read Article A lawyer for a Limington man convicted of murdering his neighbor five years ago urged the state’s highest court to overturn that verdict, arguing that police illegally searched his property and questioned him. A state prosecutor defended the search, saying police were looking for the missing neighbor whose mangled body was later found hidden on the property. Bruce Akers and his attorney Valerie Randall appear in York County Superior Court in Alfred in January 2020. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments on Thursday in his appeal of his murder conviction. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer Bruce Akers was arrested in connection with Douglas Flint’s death in June 2016, and a York County jury found him guilty in January 2020. Now 62, he is serving 38 years in prison for the crime. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments remotely Thursday and streamed the audio on its website.