The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.

The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.
Fraternal Order of Police endorses Paul LePage’s 2022 campaign for governor.
Gov. Janet Mills said she will work with the attorney general and Legislature, but did not commit to a specific solution.
Law enforcement officials listened to dozens of those recordings, Aroostook County data show.
Lawmakers stripped away penalties in favor of a 16-person committee to look at the problem.
Judge William Stokes denies Steven Clarke’s request to set aside 2016 plea deal.
Gov. Janet Mills instructs the Department of Corrections to work with lawmakers to protect attorney-client privilege in jails and prisons.
Steven Clarke gambles that a justice will let him take back his guilty plea.
Jailed defendants have a legal right to privately speak with their attorneys. Yet, in Maine, county jails are eavesdropping on these calls. Four jails recorded nearly 1,000 attorney-client calls in a single year and shared recordings with police and prosecutors before trial.
Maine jails recorded nearly 1,000 calls from inmates to their attorneys at the Aroostook, Androscoggin, Franklin and Kennebec county jails.
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