State legislators approved a law that removed the statute of limitations for civil claims about child sexual abuse in 2021, ...

Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy has questioned whether Maine's public defense agency has done enough to ensure people ...

Trevor Averill is charged with depraved indifference murder and manslaughter in the death of his two-month-old daughter, ...

His motions led to them eventually getting lawyers. Judges across Maine have granted relief in individual cases. But Murphy's order is the first to call for something more expansive. She has ...

Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Now what’s Maine’s Judicial Supreme Court up to, in allowing one of its judges, Caroline Connors, to argue via the ...

A superior court justice will hear arguments this week about what the state can do to meet its constitutional obligation to ...

Currently, Maine Supreme Court justices hold the authority to discipline one another in cases involving ethical violations. This practice, according to Dmitry Bam, a law professor at the University of ...

Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court finds itself with a thorny dilemma on its hands at the start of the new year. For the first time ever, one of its own members, Associate Justice Catherine Connors ...

Maine is violating the constitutional rights of hundreds of people who have been accused of crimes by not offering them continuous legal representation, a judge ruled Friday. Mainers who face ...

Lawmakers in the state approved the law in 2021, and it was later challenged by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine has asked Murphy to release those who have waited more than seven days for a lawyer, similar to what a judge recently ordered in Oregon. The idea still ...