Lawyer asks to withdraw from nearly 200 indigent-defense cases after state investigation
Image from Shutterstock. A prominent defense lawyer in Maine has asked to withdraw from nearly 200 court-appointed cases after the state’s public defense agency opened an investigation into her firm. In a copy of her motion obtained by the Maine Monitor, Amy Fairfield argues that Justin Andrus, the interim executive director of the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, launched a “targeted campaign seemingly designed to unjustifiably harass and intimidate” her and her firm while they “day in and day out tirelessly advocate for their client’s rights in courts all over Southern Maine.”