Maine's indigent defense crisis deepens
Advocates complain defendants are being denied lawyers or assigned attorneys who aren’t up to the job.| The Maine Monitor
Advocates complain defendants are being denied lawyers or assigned attorneys who aren’t up to the job.| The Maine Monitor
Angelina Dube Peterson is indigent and unable to afford to hire her own lawyer. She waited for weeks in jail to be assigned an attorney.| The Maine Monitor
Justice Michaela Murphy says proposed agreement in ACLU’s lawsuit would not be “judicially enforceable."| The Maine Monitor
Maine's system of providing defense lawyers to indigent clients has "deteriorated significantly," according to a Superior Court Justice.| The Maine Monitor
The state’s chief judge for superior courts says courts are unable to find a defense lawyer with "disturbing frequency" for the state's poor.| The Maine Monitor
The proposed expansion would cost $8.8 million and hire more than three dozen public defenders across Maine.| The Maine Monitor
