Maine Supreme Court

The long-running lawsuit over Maine's failure to provide attorneys to indigent defendants was back before the state Supreme Court today. The question before the court now is if the suit can include the State of Maine as a defendant.

The state Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement needs an explicit waiver of rights before interrogating suspects.

The state Supreme Court has finalized new rules for discipline proceedings involving their own.

The Maine Supreme Court has suspended Hancock County Probate judge William Blaisdell IV, after he temporarily lost his license to practice law.

Maine Supreme Court Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill said more must be done to address a backlog of court cases and a shortage of attorneys for defendants who cannot afford legal representation.

The Supreme Court found that Judge William Blaisdell IV violated the judicial code of conduct and agreed to suspend him for four months.

The case will be retried, after Maine's highest court found that Aroostook County prosecutors had made improper comments to the jury during a seven-day trial last year.

Maine's Supreme Judicial Court took up two cases Tuesday whose outcome could determine the fate of the billion-dollar energy corridor through Maine's western woods, first proposed more than three years ago by Central Maine Power.

Valerie Stanfill was sworn in this morning as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has rejected a request to suspend its earlier decision allowing ranked-choice voting to be used in the state’s fall…