State v. Saulle

GLASSMAN, Justice.

Following a jury trial in the Superior Court, Cumberland County, the defendant was convicted of the Class C crime of criminal threatening with the use of a dangerous weapon, to wit, a firearm, and was given the mandatory minimum sentence of one year. 17-A M.R.S.A. §§ 209, 1252(4), 1252(5). As his sole basis for appeal, the defendant contends the presiding Justice abused his discretion in refusing to grant a mistrial on the ground that the display to the jury of a firing-range target that had been used in test-firing a shotgun and that depicted the perforated silhouette of a…