Callie Ferguson and Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News, and Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica ProPublica is a ...

Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown threw his support behind the Seattle-based law firm targeted by President Donald ...

A Kennebec County superior court judge issued an order saying the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services must provide ...

Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, and six of her constituents filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Bangor ... The Office of the Maine Attorney General, which is defending Fecteau, said it does not ...

A code enforcement officer for the city of Portland was arrested last week on assault charges and is on administrative leave. Matthew Sarapas, 50, was arrested by Portland police on Wednesday and ...

Chief U.S. District Judge Lance Walker denied the attorney general's request to restore a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases while they wait for a federal appeals court to take up their case.

AUGUSTA (WGME) - The Kennebec County Superior Court has found that Maine is violating the Sixth Amendment. The ruling says if the state fails to provide a lawyer to a criminal suspect within two weeks ...

AUGUSTA, Maine — A recent Maine Superior Court judge ruling could result in the release of jailed defendants and the dismissal of criminal charges due to the state's ongoing public defender shortage.

The Oregon Legislature is currently deciding how to tinker with the state's public defense system to meet the surge in criminal defendants going without attorneys.