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 ...

In their filing, the MCPDS suggest several short term remedies along with long term solutions as well. The first remedy they ...

Maine’s public defense agency says it will redirect several employees at its central office who oversee billing and training to instead work on finding lawyers for criminal defendants who have ...

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 ...

9, there were over 700 pending criminal cases in Maine where no counsel had ever been provided by the Maine Commission ... "Judges should start appointing lawyers and the Commission on Legal Defense ...

Included below are some resources related to criminal defense which are relevant to PDS's mission ... What to Expect and Not to Expect from a Court Interpreter State of Maine Judicial Branch This ...

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 ...