State v. Lowe

[¶ 1] The State appeals, pursuant to 15 M.R.S.A. § 2115-A(2), (5) (2003) and M.R.App. P. 21(b), a judgment of acquittal entered in the Superior Court (Waldo County, Marden, J.) after a jury found Marshall Lowe guilty of failure to stop for an officer, 29-A M.R.S.A. § 2414(2) (1996) (Class E). The State contends that the Superior Court erroneously interpreted section 2414 to require proof that the signal given by the officer was one that a reasonable person would objectively recog*170nize as a signal for that person to stop. We agree that section 2414 does not require proof that the signal was…