A group of attorneys held a press conference Monday at 1 p.m. at One City Center in Portland to publicly call on the Maine ...

Next up: a judge will hold a hearing on Monday to lay out her plans for releasing people who have been waiting weeks for a ...

This comes after a Kennebec County Superior Court Judge issued an order for the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services ...

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 ...

The Legislature should take steps to create a new, independent public defense system that's financed by social impact bonds.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among Maine’s many curiosities is the system by which it has sought (and failed) to uphold the Sixth Amendment. That’s the ...