State v. Letellier

Hale, J. *

When Armando Duran walked into the Nelson’s Corner Gas Station and told 17-year-old Mark Wilson, on duty there, that he was carrying a shotgun and had four armed confederates outside, Mark believed him and handed over the, cash drawer. At least, the young man was disinclined. to argue the point, for he had no way of knowing at the moment that what appeared to be a shotgun would turn out to be a piece of lead pipe and that the four armed confederates would turn out to be defendant John Letellier, unarmed. Nor could one anticipate at the time that defendant John Letellier’s claim of a…