A judge in Littleton District Court has found Gregory Floyd guilty of criminal threatening.
11 months ago, Floyd was exonerated for the killing of Liko Kenny.
Kenny had, moments before, mortally wounded Franconia police officer Bruce McKay.
But since then Floyd, who has been on the wrong side of the law in the past, got into more trouble.
And his day in court Tuesday turned into an explosive event and now Floyd is almost certainly headed to jail.
NHPR correspondent Chris Jensen has the story.
SOUND OF GUARDS’ VOICES AND FLOYD SCREAMING AT FORMER STATE TROOPER WHO TESTIFIED AGAINST HIM.
“Come on, behave. That’s enough. That’s enough. Don’t even try it. Don’t even try it. Don’t go there. You are not a goddamn cop. Out the door now. Don’t make me hurt you, Greg.”
For four hours the trial of Gregory Floyd had gone so nicely.
Everyone was well behaved.
Then suddenly it turned into a fur-ball, free-for-all. Floyd was screaming and fighting with court officers and police.
Floyd, 50, was in court after being charged with threatening to pull a gun on a 63-year-old Easton neighbor Alma Jean Boisvert.
Throughout the trial Floyd sat quietly, his arms crossed staring at his accusers.
Judge John Peter Cyr took only a few minutes to announce Floyd was guilty.
Then as Floyd was leaving the courtroom he began screaming at a retired state trooper.
He warned him that he wasn’t a trooper any longer.
Guards and another state trooper grappled with him as he brandished his cane.
SOUND OF GUARDS AND THEN FLOYD SCREAMNG. BECOMES UNINTELLGIBLE. “Don’t even try it. You goddamn people need to learn America has a constitution of America…Can you help me to get that gun back.”
Then a bystander started screaming at Floyd, something one of the guards thought didn’t help.
“You murdered Liko Kenney, too. You murdered Liko Kenney. Hey, you shut up.”
It was a flip-of-the-switch, shocking change in Floyd.
For hours he had sat quietly.
There was none of the aggressive bluster and threats described by police in their encounters with him over the last decade.
The case centered around a dispute over who would back up when Mrs. Boisvert’s car and the Floyd’s truck came nose to nose on a narrow road.
Floyd reportedly asked Boisvert if he needed to pull a gun on her to settle it.
Robert Gainor, the chief prosecutor for the New Hampshire Department of Public Safety, argued that Boisvert had been terrified by the incident.
That he said constitutes criminal threatening.
Boisvert, who stands 5’2” said she was totally petrified.
Her hands fidgeted constantly, her voice quivered.
Floyd’s lawyer, Bill Christie, showed it was Floyd who first called the state police to try and settle the December 17th dispute.
Christie challenged Boisvert’s recollection of the sequence of events, whether she really thought Floyd had a gun and whether she was really frightened.
She insisted she so was so scared she might gotten some sequences wrong but she felt threatened.
Later Christie called Floyd’s son, 19, who is also known as Gregory.
He was recently fired from his job at Wal-Mart over allegations that he took money from a cash register.
Young Floyd and his mother, Michelle, both testified that it was Boisvert who was aggressive and sought trouble.
They said they saw a bulge under Boisvert’s coat that convinced them that she had a gun.
They also said they told state police about it.
But prosecutor Gainor noted that such a crucial piece of information was not in any of the police reports.
Following the finding of guilty Floyd faces 12 months in jail.
But Judge Cyr ordered a pre-sentencing report before imposing punishment.
Christie said he plans to appeal and ask for a new trial in Grafton Superior Court.
Whatever happens with that appeal Floyd is definitely headed for another trial.
But this visit is on an old charge.
In 1998 he plead guilty to attempting to kick a state trooper.
His one to three-year sentence was suspended on the condition of good behavior for 10 years.
Grafton County Attorney Rick St. Hilaire said late yesterday that he plans to reopen that case, which is likely to send Floyd to jail on the old charge.
As for Floyd, he was last seen yesterday jammed into an elevator, struggling with police and guards, headed for jail.
For some reason his pants had fallen down around his ankles.
SOUND OF SOMEBODY SHOUTING TO CLOSE THE ELEVATOR DOOR.
For NHPR News this is Chris Jensen in Littleton.
Time to reopen the investigation into what may have been the murder of Liko Kenney as well as the criminal threats to Caleb Macaulay made long after he was seated on the side of the road, Indian style.
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I could link all of the patent misrepresentations that Defendant Ayotte in Grafton Superior 07-E-268 has issued but that would be redundant. Here's a Big One:
P. 42 of the Official Report:
"Floyd was unarmed at the time he witnessed Liko Kenney shoot Cpl. McKay and then strike Cpl. McKay with his vehicle."
No he wasn't. Or I suppose that bullet hole in the windshield just majestically got there, huh?
Here are a few more, and note that many of them go directly to what Defendant Ayotte knew about Gregory W. Floyd's propensity and habit for violence, lies and deceit.......