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41-year-old Bobby Nightingale faces a possible sentence of up to life in prison.

Bobby Nightingale's trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 15 in Caribou.

The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.

The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.

The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.

When Corey Hebert’s attorney came to see him at the Aroostook County Jail, they sat face to face. Yet the two men knew they had little privacy to speak freely, said Hebert, who was jailed in 2019 for allegedly trafficking drugs.His court-appointed...

The details involving attorney John Tebbetts’ calls are the latest revelations in a monthslong investigation by The Maine Monitor. It previously reported that Aroostook, Androscoggin, Franklin and Kennebec county jails recorded nearly 1,000 calls defendants made to their attorneys between June 2019 and May 2020. Phone calls between Tebbetts and his clients are among those recordings.

Bobby Nightingale’s future hinges on his defense attorney convincing a jury that he’s not a murderer. He fears now that some of the words used against him at trial could be his own.State police listened in on parts of at least two of the dozens of calls Nightingale made from the Aroostook and Cumberland county jails to his attorney as they discussed his alibi, witnesses and defense strategies for two homicides he says he did not commit.

Murder suspects fear they can’t get a fair trial after state police acknowledge listening to portions of phone calls with their attorneys.

Jailed Defendants Expected Private Attorney Calls. They Didn’t Always Get Them.. This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center, International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists, Report for America, and Investigative Editing Corps. Bobby...