2nd attempt to overhaul Maine's indigent defense rejected by justice
The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services provides lawyers to low-income people who cannot afford to hire a private lawyer.
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The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services provides lawyers to low-income people who cannot afford to hire a private lawyer.
Superior Justice Michaela Murphy said a proposed settlement failed to address the elephant in the room – the growing number of low-income criminal defendants in Maine who are waiting weeks and months, sometimes in jail, for court-appointed attorneys.
Yet the potential failure of the courts to operate in a timely fashion is anything but new to this Trump-era moment.
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KENNEWICK — When you’re charged with a crime that could put you behind bars and you don’t have enough money to pay an attorney to defend you, the government is