A lawyer for Dechaine, who was convicted of murdering 12-year-old Sarah Cherry 34 years ago, says he will ask for a new trial based on state-of-the-art DNA tests.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime, News
Jury finds Randolph man not guilty of sexually assaulting child
Nathaniel R. Dillon, 31, acquitted on all four counts of gross sexual assault for incidents alleged by a girl who was 10 and 11 years old at the time.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime, News
Contractor who bilked dozens of central Maine homeowners, many elderly, sentenced to 3 years in prison
Tony J. Glidden, 34, continued to take deposits from homeowners after he was arrested on theft charges, providing them with excuses, but no work, while stealing more than $130,000 from two dozen clients.
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Health care workers appeal dismissal of lawsuit over Maine’s vaccine mandate
Seven Maine health care workers are taking their case to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, after a federal judge dismissed their case in August.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime, News
Man in longstanding dispute with Readfield charged for allegedly harassing town manager, family
Robert Bittar, 81, allegedly violated a protection order by harassing Town Manager Eric Dyer, but the resident’s lawyer says the matter is ‘a classic example of government overreach attempting to crush the voice of the little guy.’
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Maine reaches ‘point of failure,’ seeks $62.1 million for indigent public defense
Lawmakers are asked to more than double state spending on poor, criminal defendants.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime
Woman indicted on charges she started multiple fires with Molotov cocktails in Waterville
The June 18 fires in the Cool Street area did little damage.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Maine Crime, News
Defense lawyers want murder indictments dismissed because Maine State Police heard confidential calls
The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime
Health worker who stole rare coins from elderly patient at Augusta hospital pleads guilty
Family of the since-deceased victim say stress from the incident may have been a factor in his death.
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Maine jail recorded hundreds of lawyer’s calls. He wants to know why
The details involving attorney John Tebbetts’ calls are the latest revelations in a monthslong investigation by The Maine Monitor. It previously reported that Aroostook, Androscoggin, Franklin and Kennebec county jails recorded nearly 1,000 calls defendants made to their attorneys between June 2019 and May 2020. Phone calls between Tebbetts and his clients are among those recordings.