by Samantha Hogan | May 23, 2021
A lawyer working on behalf of the state continued to represent low-income defendants after being arrested for impaired driving this month. Suzanne Dwyer-Jones was arrested by the York Police Department for driving while intoxicated after failing a sobriety test...
by Samantha Hogan and Agnel Philip | February 23, 2021
Editor’s Note: This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The Maine Monitor is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Soon after receiving his license to practice law in Maine...
by Samantha Hogan | November 22, 2020
In the final six weeks of the year, Maine’s public defense agency is racing to meet multiple deadlines to overhaul its operations while also beginning a search for a new executive director. A “very lean” staff of three people will be expected to run...
by Samantha Hogan | November 11, 2020
This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The Maine Monitor is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Maine Gov. Janet Mills said Tuesday she was reluctant to provide further...
by Samantha Hogan | November 9, 2020
Maine’s public defense agency operated without clear leadership and with few written policies that caused a cascade of problems with its finances and oversight of attorneys for the state’s poorest defendants, a scathing report released Monday by the...
