State v. Pottios

CLIFFORD, Justice.

The defendant, Richard Pottios, appeals from his convictions of aggravated assault, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 208(1)(A) (1983), and criminal mischief, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 806(1)(A) (1983), after a jury trial in Superior Court (York County, Lipez, /.). The charges were based on Pottios’s beating of Donald Clark and his smashing of a car windshield with a tire iron or iron pipe in Old Orchard Beach. Pottios contends that the court abused its discretion in granting the State’s motion in limine to impeach Pottios’s credibility by a prior conviction of rape. Pott-ios further contends that the…