State v. DiPietro

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendant Lawrence C. DiPietro was tried before a Superior Court Jury in Cumberland County on a three-count indictment, two charging tampering with a witness, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 454(1)(B)(1) (Supp. 1980), and the third charging terrorizing, id. § 210. The jury returned guilty verdicts on the two witness-tampering counts, but the presiding justice ordered acquittal on the terrorizing count. We deny defendant’s appeal from his two convictions for witness-tampering.

In June, 1977, Joseph Francoeur, now the complaining witness in this criminal proceeding and a former employee…