State v. Thibodeau

ROBERTS, Justice.

Arnold G. Thibodeau appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in the Superi- or Court (Lincoln County, Atwood, J.) convicting him of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. §§ 209 and 1252(4) (1983). Thibo-deau argues that the court failed to properly instruct the jury on the elements of the offense charged and that the failure affected his substantial rights.' We affirm the judgment.

In July 1994 Thibodeau accosted Fire Chief Steven Dowdy in front of the Edge-comb fire station. Thibodeau was angry at Dowdy about an incident two years…