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Judge considers bond in fatal convenience story stabbing fatality

Man accepts plea offer in 2022 traffic death

Although significant time passed between defendant’s pretrial waivers of counsel and his trial – largely due to the pandemic’s impact on jury trials – the burden of showing a change in defendant’s desire for counsel rests upon defendant. There is no evidence that defendant ever wavered in his desire to represent himself at trial. Moreover, ...

Former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Officer Phillip Baker was convicted Wednesday of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle after a 2017 speeding death that killed a pedestrian, but was acquitted on more serious felony charges and won't serve jail time.

Judge Robert Ervin said he needs more time to decide whether the lawsuit can move forward as a class action but added that the timetable for that decision would be “sooner than later.”

Overall, the MEREDA conference, held Jan. 20 at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, presented a bullish — if nuanced — outlook for the Maine real estate industry in 2022.

The Mainebiz team canvassed presentations and talks at Thursday's forecast conference of the Maine Real Estate & Development Association. Here are some of the findings we came away with.

When Clarence Prinkey of Brevard died in 2016, the horde of after-death logistics quickly consumed his son, Kevin Prinkey, and his daughter-in-law, Xiomara Prinkey — calling relatives to notify them about Clarence Prinkey’s passing, planning his funeral, going through his things, not to mention processing their own grief.   As they rifled through a lifes worth of belongings and paperwork, Kevin Prinkey noticed one particular thing was missing: his father’s check reg...

Henderson County (Jun 11, 2021) - Along with every other U.S. attorney in America, Andrew Murray complied with the request from the new administration in January to resign from his job.

One month after Greg Newman was removed from office as district attorney in a rare court proceeding, he has been approved to work in Asheville and Buncombe County as a defense attorney for indigent clients – those who have been accused of a crime and can’t afford a private lawyer. Buncombe County Chief Public Defender Sam Snead on May 24 approved Newman to be placed on a list of attorneys who serve as court-appointed counsel for indigent people. These lawyers are paid by the state’s Off...