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Dec 24, 2024
Fourth Amendment Criminal Cases Absent In Supreme Court’s Docket
Cases being heard this term at the U.S. Supreme Court once again fail to address Fourth Amendment claims for criminal defendants. The...
Wraight.Law
Oct 17, 2024
Facial Recognition Being Used in Maine Mostly By Outside Agencies
Logs released by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles of the use of facial recognition show limited use by Maine law enforcement - the tech is...
Wraight.Law
Aug 22, 2024
Proposed Guidelines Prohibit Police Lying - Except To Suspects
Maine’s policing regulator has used a new law to discipline officers for more conduct with draft new standards of conduct and while...
Wraight.Law
Apr 18, 2024
Poor Defendants With No Lawyer Tops 600 And Rising
Poor criminal defendants without an attorney in Maine has topped 600 for the first time. After the number of cases and unrepresented...
Wraight.Law
Feb 28, 2024
UPDATE: New Grim Milestone Hit - 500+ Poor Defendants Have No Lawyer
The number of unrepresented poor criminal defendants in Maine has now consistently passed 500 - yet another grim milestone in the crisis...
Wraight.Law
Feb 5, 2024
Judges In Maine - State Pasts, Mostly Men, Mostly From One Law School
An analysis of the known background of many of Maine’s judges has revealed a significant proportion of former prosecutors and state...
Wraight.Law
Jan 18, 2024
UPDATE: Poor Defendants With No Attorney Now Hits 300 in Maine
The number of unrepresented poor criminal defendants in Maine has passed 300, and continues to grow. This blog has also reported that the...
Wraight.Law
Jan 17, 2024
Promised Review Of MSP Fusion Center Did Not Happen
Maine State Police said they would get an outside entity to review a secretive center that gathers intelligence on citizens. It didn’t...
Wraight.Law
Jan 16, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case About Homeless Encampments
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to take a case involving the ability of a city to ban homeless encampments. This issue has...
Wraight.Law
Jan 4, 2024
Crisis Of Defense For Poor Grows - Lawyerless Clients Up, Rosters Fall
The number of unrepresented poor criminal defendants in Maine has passed 200 while the number of available defense attorneys taking cases...
Wraight.Law
Jan 4, 2024
Bomb Hoax Closes Courts
Three of Maine's busiest courts were closed today (January 4, 2023) for a time because of what was believed to be a bomb threat hoax....
Wraight.Law
Nov 30, 2023
Maine Court Crisis Leaves Nearly 200 With No Lawyer
The crisis of criminal defense in Maine continues with more than 180 poor defendants without a court-appointed attorney. The judicial...
Wraight.Law
Aug 30, 2023
Traffic Stop Monitoring Rules Finally Released - To Start A Year Late
Proposed rules on how Maine police departments will monitor the demographics of motorists involved in traffic stops have now been...
Wraight.Law
May 24, 2023
Traffic Stop Monitoring Rules STILL Not Ready - AG Relying On Law Change
Rules on how Maine police departments will monitor the demographics of motorists they stop are still unfinished nearly six months after a...
Wraight.Law
May 22, 2023
Criminal Defense Commission's New Executive Director Starts Role
A commission in charge of overseeing criminal defense for people accused of crimes but too poor to pay for their own attorney has a new...
Wraight.Law
Apr 24, 2023
Criminal Defense Commission Getting New Director
A commission in charge of overseeing criminal defense for people accused of crimes but too poor to pay for their own attorney is getting...
Wraight.Law
Mar 3, 2023
UPDATE: Rules For Maine Cops To Monitor Traffic Stops Not Ready - Despite New Law
Rules on how Maine police departments will monitor the demographics of motorists they stop have still to be finalized - in spite of a...
Wraight.Law
Feb 21, 2023
Head Of Criminal Defense Commission Announces Plans to Leave Post
The head of Maine's agency that oversees criminal defense for the poor in the state has announced his plans to leave the job. Justin...
Wraight.Law
Feb 15, 2023
Platitudes And Lack Of Concrete Plans Mark Governor’s Budget Speech
Governor Janet Mills offered only platitudes and a BandAid solution to the crisis facing criminal defense for the poor in her budget...
Wraight.Law
Feb 9, 2023
Commission Says Parole Should Return In Maine
A commission has recommended that parole should be re-established in Maine. Maine was one of the first states in the nation to abolish...
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