Legal Opinion
State v. Landry
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 3, 1991PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATHEN, Justice.
Defendant Dalmon Landry appeals his conviction for criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and tampering with a witness on the ground of double jeopardy.1 We conclude that the Superior Court’s finding of a manifest necessity for the declaration of a mistrial is unsupported in the record, and we vacate the convictions.
In 1989, defendant was indicted for criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon (17-A M.R.S.A. § 209 (1983)) and witness tampering (17-A M.R.S.A. § 454 (1983)). The two charges were consolidated for trial with a charge of assault. At the end of a two-day…
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