State v. Leavitt

The defendant, Todd Leavitt, appeals his convictions for two counts of simple assault on a police officer, see RSA 631:2-a (2007); RSA 651:6,1(g) (Supp. 2012), following a jury trial in Superior Court (Vaughan, J.). We affirm.

The jury could have found the following facts. Early on the morning of September 4, 2010, the defendant called 9-1-1 and told the dispatcher that he was suicidal and needed an ambulance. Because the defendant said he was uninjured, however, the dispatcher sent the police to his residence. The defendant became agitated when the police arrived instead of an ambulance,…