Justice Stanfill will succeed former Chief Justice Leigh Saufley, who stepped down last year to become dean of the University of Maine School of Law.
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Nominee to be Maine’s chief justice has earned trust in legal community
Superior Court Justice Valerie Stanfill, a judge in Maine since 2007, could become chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court at a critical time.
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Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Veteran judge nominated to be chief justice of Maine’s high court
Valerie Stanfill has most recently served as a Superior Court justice for Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Beachfront ownership lawsuit challenges Maine Law Court errors
It remains to be seen whether Maine courts are willing to correct legal and scientific mistakes of the past.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: To delay resuming civil trials is to delay justice
The people of Maine have a right to expect their state court system to fulfill its constitutional obligations.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Court should protect Maine’s sound redistricting process
A slow census makes it impossible for the state to keep our constitution’s tight deadlines.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
Kennebec County commissioners vote to return controversial statue to donor
Robert Fuller Jr., who gave the statue of Melville Fuller to the county and offered to take it back, will have up to a year to make arrangements to move the monument of the controversial jurist.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Court upholds 48-year prison sentence for Marissa Kennedy’s mother
Sharon Kennedy, who was known as Sharon Carrillo at the time of her arrest and conviction, was sentenced in Waldo County to 48 years in prison for murdering her 10-year-old daughter.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, Morning Sentinel
Maine’s Supreme Court votes to uphold Clinton teen’s sentence
Timothy Silva, the driver of a vehicle that crashed and killed three children, will remain at Long Creek Youth Detention Center until his 21st birthday.
Posted inMaine, News
Criteria for involuntarily committing patients in Maine is about to change
The state supreme court ruled last month that a Damariscotta hospital erred in holding a patient without getting a judge’s approval and in how it evaluated his petition to be released.