Case Title: State v. West

Citation: 164 Vt 192, 667 A.2d 540

Docket Number: 94-231

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1995-09-01T00:00:00Z

Document:
STATE_V_WEST.94-231; 164 Vt 192; 667 A.2d 540

[Filed 01-Sep-1995]

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                                   No. 94-231


State of Vermont                                 Supreme Court

                                                 On Appeal from
     v.                                          District Court of Vermont,
                                                 Unit No. 2, Chittenden Circuit

Shawn L. West                                    January Term, 1995



Alden T. Bryan, J.

       Scot Kline, Chittenden County State's Attorney, and Pamela Hall
  Johnson, Deputy State's Attorney, Burlington, for plaintiff-appellee

       Robert Appel, Defender General, and William A. Nelson, Appellate
  Defender, Montpelier, for defendant-appellant


PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Gibson, Dooley, Morse and Johnson, JJ.


       DOOLEY, J.   Defendant appeals his conviction by court of domestic
  assault in  violation of 13 V.S.A. § 1042.  He argues that (1) his jury
  trial waiver was invalid because the court failed to comply with V.R.Cr.P.
  23(a), and (2) the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction.  We
  conclude that defendant's conviction is supported by the evidence, but we
  reverse and remand for a new trial because his waiver of his right to trial
  by jury was invalid.

                                 I.

       Double jeopardy concerns require that we first address whether the
  evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction.  State v.
  Durenleau, ___ Vt. ___, ___,