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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Androscoggin County judge named by Gov. Mills to lead state’s highest court
Justice Valerie Stanfill serves as trial judge in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maine’s supreme court clarifies rules for holding psychiatric patients in emergency rooms
The court rules that a judge must be alerted within 24 hours if a psychiatric patient is to be held for an extended period during involuntary hospitalization.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News, Oxford Hills
Judicial order sets new limits on court appearances over COVID-19 concerns
Police agencies adjust to restrictions placed on each court.
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Fate of Kennebec County’s Melville Fuller statue debated
A public hearing Tuesday draws a wide range of comments and suggestions about the statue honoring the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who presided over the court when the “separate but equal” doctrine was enshrined into U.S. law, paving the way for decades of racial segregation.
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Augusta courthouse remains closed as another two employees test positive for COVID-19
The Capital Judicial Center is expected to remain closed to the public all week due to a lack of staff. It is slated to reopen to the public Monday, Dec. 7.