May 25—A superior court judge is allowing the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine to include the attorney general in a lawsuit that accuses the state of failing to provide lawyers to poor Mainers. The Kennebec County Superior Court on Thursday granted the ACLU’s petition to add Attorney General Aaron Frey to the ongoing lawsuit, […]
May 13—Maine’s highest court has denied the state’s attempt to halt an upcoming trial that will focus on Maine’s inability to find enough attorneys to represent hundreds of low-income criminal defendants. The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, which has been renamed to the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services, has been battling a lawsuit […]