A new bill under consideration at the State House seeks to increase the number of inmates in Maine who qualify for free phone ...

founder and director of the Maine Indigent Defense Center, a firm whose lawyers work with low-income clients facing criminal charges. “It’s not as though there’s an infinite number of ...

Tina Nadeau, a Portland defense attorney who is director of the Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said the bill's efforts to allocate more funding to public defense was noble but the ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - A public hearing was held in Augusta Monday on a bill that would change the level of the crime of ...

By Ryan Williams In January, a Maine judge found the independent state agency that operates public defense had violated state ...

It’s very problematic,” stated Executive Director of the Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Tina Nadeau. “The focus must be on effective assistance of counsel, not efficient ...

Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy gives Maine's public defense agency 1 month before criminal defendants who ... state agency in charge of finding lawyers for those who can’t afford their ...

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff The state of Maine is violating people’s Constitutional rights by not providing ...

but not for misconduct by defense attorneys. Others on Monday supported the bill because it would hold public officials accountable in Maine’s criminal legal system. Logan Perkins, a public ...

Maine’s current Commission on Public Defense Services was created to do what it could in the recruitment and support of lawyers willing ... to provide comprehensive criminal defense and parental ...