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The lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Maine states that the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services is not upholding its duties under the U.S. Constitution to provide adequate defense counsel to all Maine residents.
The ACLU contends Maine has failed in its duty to provide competent, well-supervised attorneys for poor criminal defendants who cannot afford to hire their own.
The ACLU chief told the judge the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is being violated for the poor because court-appointed attorneys are paid too little to handle too many cases without enough oversight.
The court will take up CMP’s challenge to the referendum law that halted the corridor, and Avangrid’s appeal to revive its public lands lease.
In the presence of their family and friends, Nikita Eastham married Mark Domer on June 5 last at Magheracross Parish Church, Ballinamallard.