State v. Loso

Randall Loso was tried by jury and convicted of leaving the scene of an accident (LSA). 23 V.S.A. § 1128. On appeal defendant claims that the court erred in permitting the jury to know that he was employed as a police officer, allowing a number of amendments to the information during trial, and giving a copy of a portion of the LSA statute to the jury. We affirm.

While off duty as a patrolman for the Shelburne Police Department, defendant and several fellow employees spent an evening at a restaurant on Williston Road in South Burlington, Vermont. At about midnight, defendant and another…