State v. DeCesere

NICHOLS, Justice.

In a jury-waived trial in Superior Court in Penobscot County the Defendant was convicted of disorderly conduct. The complaint charged him with having insulted a Bangor police officer in a private place with certain offensive words “which had a direct tendency to cause a violent response” in the police officer, and which “would have a tendency to cause such a violent response by an ordinary person in the situation of” that police officer.

The vulgarities were expressly pleaded.

The State asserts that such conduct was a violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 501.

The Defendant, appealing…