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STATE v. DeCESERE

379 A.2d 1221 (1977)

STATE of Maine v. Richard DeCESERE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

December 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Cox, Dist. Atty., John A. Woodcock, Jr. (orally), Asst. Dist. Atty., Bangor, for plaintiff.

Ford & Hall by Richard W. Hall (orally), Bangor, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and POMEROY, WERNICK, ARCHIBALD, GODFREY and NICHOLS, JJ.

NICHOLS, Justice.

In a jury-waived trial in Superior Court in Penobscot County the Defendant was convicted of disorderly conduct. The complaint charged him with having insulted a Bangor police officer in a private place with certain offensive words "which had a direct tendency to cause a violent response" in the police officer, and which "would have a tendency to cause such a violent response by an ordinary person in the situation of" that police officer.

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