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 Susan Cover | March 26, 2020
Editor’s update (Jan. 10, 2021): Rep. Charlotte Warren (D-Hallowell) has resubmitted An Act to Reclassify Certain Offenses under the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Laws and Motor Vehicle Laws and Increase the Efficiency of the Criminal Justice System for...
by Susan Cover | March 12, 2020
More than 9,000 people are jailed in Maine every year for one simple reason: They didn’t show up for a court date. And while some of them are ducking their responsibility to appear before a judge, many others simply forget, are confused about the process, are sick or...
by Susan Cover | March 5, 2020
When he was elected sheriff in 2014, Barry Curtis told Washington County voters he would address the county’s drug problem head on. After 25 years as a state trooper — the last 15 in Washington and Hancock counties — he felt well prepared for the job. When he returned...
by Susan Cover | February 20, 2020
As diversion clerk, Katherine Ellis works with many different types of people facing charges in Cumberland County. Her job in the district attorney’s office is to help people after they admit to committing a crime but have been given a chance to wipe the slate clean...
