A state attorney told a judge Friday he's not against releasing some criminal defendants from jail who have been denied their constitutional rights to a lawyer, as long as public safety is taken into ...

A judge recently ruled state failed to provide low-income defendants with legal representation. Over the past three days, a ...

Yet few agencies have used it so far. The amendment, part of a larger bill to “strengthen public safety by improving Maine’s firearm laws and mental health system,” was a reaction to the October 2023 ...

There is another circuit courthouse located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the court sits for two weeks a year. Federal judges are nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the ...

FILE photo- In this Thursday, April 12, 2018, photo, justices sit during a hearing in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in Portland, Maine. The state Supreme Court has proposed new rules for discipline ...

BOSTON (CN) — Bar Harbor, one of the most popular tourist towns in Maine, told the First Circuit Wednesday that ... clause and conflicts with federal maritime regulations. A lower court upheld the ...

Since the high court’s 2022 decision — in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen — that firearm regulations must have some historical comparison going back to the country ...

Justice Catherine Connors said her peers on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, not a panel of other judges, should decide whether to sanction her. Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justice Catherine ...

The Hill has reached out to a legal services organization Pomerantz is a part of, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the New York State Unified Court System’s Department of ...

In June 2022, the 6-3 conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of New York’s law that established a strict permitting system to carry a concealed weapon. In the case, New York ...