PORT ANGELES — The state Court of Appeals has reduced the sentence for Teresa N. Dumdie, who threatened a family with a gun outside the former Port Angeles Walmart in 2009.
Dumdie, 40, was sentenced in February 2010 to 10 years in prison and 18 months in community custody for four counts of second-degree assault and second-degree assault of a child.
The appeals court Thursday eliminated the community custody provision for the Port Angeles woman because it exceeds the maximum sentence for second-degree assault.
The court also eliminated the requirements that she abstain from alcohol, abstain from possessing or using drugs and pay the cost of counseling for the victims, but it maintained the requirement that she receive mental health treatment.
A Clallam County Superior Court jury convicted Dumdie in December 2009.
Dumdie pulled a handgun on a woman, her daughter, grandson and her daughter’s boyfriend in the parking lot of the now-closed Walmart at 3500 E. U.S. Highway 101 in July 2009 after they had asked her to stop swearing while she confronted a store clerk over gun ammo.
It appeared that she was trying to pull the trigger, according to court documents.
Dumdie, who claimed she bought the wrong ammunition, had been told to leave the store after becoming angry and verbally abusive toward staff, who said she could not return the ammo.
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