State v. Sommer

WERNICK, Justice.

Defendant Bruce A. Sommer has appealed from a judgment of conviction entered in the Superior Court (Hancock County) on the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of having committed, on January 27,1979, the crime of criminal threatening, in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 209(1),1 with use of a dangerous weapon.2

Defendant has entered pleas of “not guilty” and “not guilty by reason of insanity.” Before trial, however, he withdrew the plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity” and chose to go to trial only on his plea of “not guilty.” Defendant’s pleading thus foreclosed him from…