Attorneys for the former Fairbanks university student filed motions in his case Monday.
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Portland man charged with murder in neighbor’s beating death
A 63-year-old man died Sunday, more than a month after he sustained critical injuries in an assault police say was carried out by his neighbor.
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Wiscasset woman to appeal murder conviction in death of 4-year-old girl
Shawna Gatto was found guilty in April of murdering 4-year-old Kendall Chick and was sentenced in June to 50 years in prison.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit against Shaw’s by family of woman murdered at Saco store
A federal judge rules that the supermarket could not have foreseen the random attack at the Shaw’s store in Saco in August 2015.
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Shawna Gatto is sentenced to 50 years for murder of 4-year-old Kendall Chick
Gatto was convicted in April of subjecting the girl in her care to what a judge called ‘outrageous, revolting, shocking and brutal’ abuse.
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Husband and wife charged with killing 10-year-old girl will have separate trials
The judge also denies a motion to suppress statements the mother of Marissa Kennedy made to police about daily abuse.
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Luc Tieman loses appeal of conviction for wife’s murder
The Fairfield man is serving a sentence of 55 years in prison.
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Former Jay man found guilty of killing former girlfriend
FARMINGTON — A former Jay man was found guilty Friday of knowingly causing the death of his former girlfriend, Wendy Douglass, by striking her in the head with a bat at least three times on July 11, 2017. James E. “Ted” Sweeney, who is deaf, had pleaded not criminally responsible by reason of insanity in October 2018 […]
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Murder case of former Jay man in judge's hands
FARMINGTON — Lawyers in the murder trial of James “Ted” Sweeney presented closing arguments Monday before Justice William Stokes, who said he will announce a verdict Feb. 1. Assistant Attorney General Leane Zainea said on the fifth day of the trial the 58-year-old former Jay man knew it was wrong when he struck his former, longtime […]
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Defense rests in Jay murder case, closing arguments to be heard Monday
FARMINGTON — Psychologists who evaluated the mental health of a former Jay man on trial for murder in the death of his former girlfriend reached different conclusions, they told the court Friday. Dr. Robert Q. Pollard Jr., who testified for the defense, said that after reviewing all of the data and conducting tests, he deemed James “Ted” […]