State v. Palmer

Defendant Shelley Palmer appeals from a conviction entered in the Chittenden District Court on a charge of simple assault in violation of 13 VS.A. § 1023(a)(3) (attempting by physical menace to put another in fear of imminent serious bodily injury). His contentions on appeal are that the trial court improperly denied him an opportunity to depose the complaining witness, that he should have been granted a new trial when certain information came to light about this witness and that the trial court committed reversible error by admitting evidence of an association between defendant, who is a…