As part of a deferred disposition agreement, a Wiscasset man who has pleaded guilty to felony domestic violence charges could get a break if he meets certain conditions and refrains from new criminal conduct over the next two years.
Michael W. Innes, 46, then of Nobleboro, was arrested by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office last June at his residence.
Innes, while intoxicated, brandished a .380-caliber handgun and threatened to kill a female relative if she called law enforcement, according to Lincoln County Sheriff’s Lt. Michael Murphy.
Innes was arrested and deputies found a loaded handgun, Murphy said previously.
A Lincoln County grand jury indicted Innes in September on charges of domestic violence criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and domestic violence terrorizing with a dangerous weapon, both class C felonies.
Innes pleaded guilty to both charges on May 11, but if he complies with the two-year deferred disposition agreement, he will face only a class D misdemeanor domestic violence criminal threatening charge.
Terms of the agreement include refraining from all criminal conduct; no possession of drugs, alcohol, or firearms and random searches and testing for such, and undergoing mental health and substance abuse evaluations, among other conditions.
If he successfully completes the agreement, Innes would be sentenced to a fully suspended jail term of 364 days and one year of probation.
If he fails to meet the conditions, Innes faces open pleas to the two felony charges, meaning he could receive any legal sentence.
According to Assistant District Attorney Andrew Wright, the prosecutor, Innes’ case is one where the state would give a person a chance to prove they should not be a felon.
Innes does not have a significant criminal history and aside from a minor bail violation shortly after he was arrested, has not been in any trouble since the original arrest, Wright said.
A call to Jennifer Davis, Innes’ defense attorney, was not returned by press time.
