State v. Morabito

The defendant, Joseph J. Morabito, appeals his conviction on four counts of criminal threatening following a bench trial in Colebrook District Court (Desjardins, J.). We reverse and remand.

The record supports the following facts. On August 9, 2004, Officer Guthrie Peet of the Colebrook Police Department was dispatched to investigate a report of a car honking its horn and flashing its lights. Upon arriving at the scene, he found two people inside the car and the defendant standing outside of it. Peet arrested the passenger of the car, as the conditions of her bail prohibited her from having…