Court Opinion

ID: 9748106
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 15:52:20.642249+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:31.692774
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ALEXANDER, J.,
with whom SILVER, J., joins, dissenting.
[¶ 8] At the trial, Bradley C. Manosh and his former girlfriend each testified. They disputed whether the phone call at issue was a violation of the “no contact” requirement of the Vermont protective order, or subject to an exception to the no contact provision related to visitation with their child. The court determined that Manosh’s claim that the call was subject to an exception to the protective order was not credible. This was a credibility determination for the court to make.
[¶ 9] Giving the trial court the deference it is due, the record contains competent evidence upon which the court could have found each element of the charge of violating a protection from abuse order (Class D), 19-A M.R.S. § 4011(1) (2009), proved beyond a reasonable doubt. See State v. Tayman, 2008 ME 177, ¶ 4, 960 A.2d 1151, 1153 (stating that we review the evidence “and all reasonable inferences drawn from that evidence, in the light most favorable to the State to determine whether the trier of fact could have found every element of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt”); see also State v. Smen, 2006 ME 40, ¶¶ 2, 8-9, 895 A.2d 319, 320-22 (indicating that we review a trial court’s interpretation of another court order de novo and discussing sufficiency of the evidence in a violation of a protection from abuse order).
[¶ 10] I would affirm the trial court’s judgment.