Some damages are limited by a $750,000 cap the jury wasn’t aware of. Mid Coast Medical Group is asking a judge for a new trial.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Manslaughter trial for death of child in Knox County ends with a hung jury
Aziayh Scott, 24, had pleaded not guilty to a manslaughter charge related to the death of a toddler in 2024.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Knox County jury deliberating in Louisiana man’s trial over child death
Aziayh Scott, 24, has denied causing the 2024 death of his girlfriend’s toddler in Maine.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
State plans to challenge Standish man’s account of fatal shooting at trial
Brandon Libby, 37, is scheduled for a jury trial in Portland on Dec. 4. He has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Amanda Brown.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Defense lawyers ask to introduce new suspects in Deering Oaks murder case
Amin Awies Mohamed has denied killing Walter Omal on Sept. 7, 2022. His trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 28.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation / World, News, Politics
Texas jury clears most ‘Trump Train’ drivers in trial over Biden-Harris bus encounter
The jury found one person liable in a civil trial over a so-called ‘Trump Train’ that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus in 2020.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Auburn man tries to fire attorney — again — before trial
Willie Minor, 58, of Auburn, appears in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn in June 2018. On Thursday, he was back in court picking a jury for his Feb. 12 trial on charges that include gross sexual assault and aggravated sex trafficking. (Sun Journal file photo) AUBURN — A local man accused of sexual assault and […]
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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 […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn
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” […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Livermore Falls Advertiser
Trial begins for former Jay man accused of killing girlfriend
FARMINGTON — The murder trial of James “Ted” Sweeney opened Monday with the prosecutor focusing on Sweeney’s obsessive jealousy and the defense pointing to mental illness and deafness as factors in the beating death of Wendy Douglass at her home in Jay last year. Sweeney, 58, formerly of Jay, is accused of killing his former longtime girlfriend […]