Lawmakers recommend keeping $150 an hour pay raise for lawyers and adding a $3 million public defender office.

Lawmakers recommend keeping $150 an hour pay raise for lawyers and adding a $3 million public defender office.
Proposed legislation seeks to protect defendant rights to attorney-client privilege in jails.
Justin Andrus will be second lawyer to leave MCILS this year
Christopher Whalley, who was disbarred in December 2022, is charged with theft by misapplication.
Nathaniel Seth Levy announced he would depart from Maine’s budding public defender project last Friday.
The director of indigent legal services cautions that five people are not enough to solve the systemic problems.
An additional 10 public defenders and tiered hourly wages for contracted counsel included in state budget plan
Jail recordings of attorney-client phone calls and defense lawyer shortages are among the top concerns.
Friends of a Milbridge man who died in 2018 had sought help since then to get eight $10,000 gifts distributed.
Rep. Jeff Evangelos alleges in letter that Maine’s attorney general has blocked reforms as court system collapses.
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