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
The underfunded system negatively affects attorneys and indigent defendants, according to Maine's civil rights advisory committee.| The Maine Monitor
A quarter of Maine attorneys disciplined for serious misconduct in the past decade also represented the poor with sex crimes and felonies often overlooked.| The Maine Monitor
The proposed expansion would cost $8.8 million and hire more than three dozen public defenders across Maine.| The Maine Monitor