State v. Haley

CLIFFORD, Justice.

Defendant Miles Haley appeals from the Superior Court’s (Kennebec County, Kravchuk, J.) affirmance of a District Court (Augusta, Calkins, C.J.) judgment convicting him of violating a protection from abuse order. 19 M.R.S.A. § 769 (1981 & Supp.1992). He contends that the statute under which he was prosecuted did not categorize as criminal the behavior for which he was convicted. We agree and vacate the District Court judgment.

In October 1989, Katherine Haley, then the spouse of Miles Haley, obtained an order for protection from abuse from the District Court (Augusta, Bradley,…