STATE v. GOYETTE

No. 96-067.

691 A.2d 1064 (1997)

STATE of Vermont v. Timothy GOYETTE.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

February 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra W. Everitt, Addison County Deputy State's Attorney, Middlebury, for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas C. Nuovo of Nuovo, Gale & Fuller, P.C., Burlington, for defendant-appellant.

Before GIBSON, DOOLEY, MORSE and JOHNSON, JJ., and ALLEN, C.J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.


JOHNSON, Justice.

Defendant, who was found guilty of violating a final relief-from-abuse order that had incorporated a stipulation prohibiting him from abusing or harassing his estranged wife, appeals the conviction on the grounds that the underlying order was invalid and that the trial court erred in instructing the jury on the definition of harassment. We conclude that the court's instruction requires reversal of the conviction.

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