Opinion ID: 4216301
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Heading: sufficiency of the evidence

Text: [¶29] Hall also contends that there was insufficient evidence to sustain a guilty verdict on the two charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, 17-A M.R.S. §§ 209, 1252(4). To decide whether the record contains sufficient evidence to support a criminal defendant’s conviction, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State to determine whether the fact-finder could rationally find each element of the offense proved beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Sanchez, 2014 ME 50, ¶ 8, 89 A.3d 1084; State v. Woodard, 2013 ME 36, ¶ 19, 68 A.3d 1250. [¶30] Given that both complaining witnesses testified that Hall pointed a firearm at them, that he fired shots in their direction, and that as a result the men feared that they would be shot, the jury could have rationally found every element of both counts of criminal threating with a dangerous weapon proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Because there was sufficient evidence in the record supporting the jury verdict, we affirm the judgment. The entry is: Judgment affirmed. 16 Amy McNally, Esq. (orally), Woodman Edmands Danylik Austin Smith & Jacques, P.A., Biddeford, for appellant Wayne I. Hall Kathryn L. Slattery, District Attorney, and Susan J. Pope, Asst. Dist. Atty. (orally), Prosecutorial District #1, Alfred, for appellee State of Maine York County Unified Criminal Docket docket number CR-2015-662 FOR CLERK REFERENCE ONLY