State v. Lanoue

In late 1971 and early 1972 the defendant, Mitchell H. Lanoue, pleaded nolo contendere in the Superior Court to three indictments, each charging him with uttering and publishing a false, fraudulent, altered and counterfeited check. He received a 5-year suspended sentence and 5 years probation on each of two of those indictments and entered into a deferred sentence agreement with the Attorney General on the third. Thereafter, on November 16, 1973, he was indicted for conspiracy to commit robbery and on the basis of that indictment was presented to the Superior Court for allegedly violating the…