PARIS — A Paris man who admitted to threatening his neighbor with a gun in August 2012 will have his sentence postponed for 18 months.
Robert Lee Smith, 50, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal threatening. An assault charge was dismissed.
He agreed to an 18-month reprieve from sentencing. If he meets all the conditions in that time, the criminal threatening charge will be dismissed and he will be allowed to plea to a Class D disorderly conduct charge instead.
Assistant District Attorney Richard Beauchesne said the argument was a “property line dispute” during which Smith went into his house, brought out a gun, waved it around and threatened his neighbor.
The victim’s sister said her brother was an “upstanding citizen” who was “nonviolent, nonthreatening.” She asked for a harsher sentence for Smith, who she said threatened to kill her brother. She also asked that Smith be forced to forfeit all firearms for life, rather than just the 18-month agreement.
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