State v. McKean

The defendant, Ronald E. McKean, appeals his conviction by a jury in Superior Court (Morrill, J.) for criminal threatening, see RSA 681:4 (Supp. 2000), on the ground that it violated his State constitutional right to be free from double jeopardy, see N.H. CONST, pt. I, art. 16. We affirm.

The relevant facts follow. On June 14, 1999, the defendant came to his wife’s place of work, armed with a pistol. Six days previously, his wife had obtained an ex parte restraining order against him, which granted her a legal separation and temporary custody of the couple’s thirteen-year-old daughter. As the…