Defense lawyers warn of crisis with poorly paying court-appointed cases
Criminal defense lawyers say they are underpaid and overworked when representing indigent defendants.
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Criminal defense lawyers say they are underpaid and overworked when representing indigent defendants.
Criminal defense lawyers say they are underpaid and overworked when representing indigent defendants.
Anger over municipality cutting off electricity when people default on water bills
People queueing at the Musina Municipality to buy electricity and to pay their water bills were surprised when they were stopped from doing so by the Musina To The Front community structure last week.
Read Article PORTLAND — Two Lewiston men who came to that city as Somali refugees were sentenced in federal court Friday for their respective roles as interpreters in a health care fraud scheme that bilked MaineCare out of more than $1.8 million through a Lewiston office providing mental health and substance abuse counseling services. At a daylong hearing in U.S. District Court, Chief Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced Abdirashid Ahmed, 41, to two years in prison, plus three years of supervised release. Defense attorney Daniel Dube said after the hearing his client planned to appeal his sentence....