AUGUSTA (AP) — A trial is set to get underway soon for the first person in Maine to be forced to take psychiatric medication to restore his mental capacity. Jury selection is slated for Thursday in the trial of 27-year-old Leroy Smith III, who’s charged with killing his father and dismembering the body. If a […]
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Deadlock in Bill Cosby trial; jury told to keep at it
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jurors in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial have told a judge they’re deadlocked on charges the comedian drugged and molested a woman in 2004. The panel deliberated about 30 hours over four days before telling Judge Steven O’Neill on Thursday they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict on any of the charges. […]
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Sanford man to stand trial for scaring woman to death
ALFRED (AP) — A man accused of causing a Maine woman’s fatal heart attack by frightening her during a 2015 attempted burglary is due to stand trial. Jury selection was getting underway Monday for Carlton Young, who’s pleaded not guilty to felony murder. He’s accused in the death of 62-year-old Connie Loucks, who suffered a […]
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Sex abuse trial begins for ex-youth ministry group official
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A trial is underway for a former youth ministry program official in Canaan whose charged with unlawful sexual contact with a young girl. The Kennebec Journal reported (http://bit.ly/2mb2yvv ) the 12-year-old girl testified on Tuesday that Lucas Savage, who was co-director of Youth Haven Ministry, touched her inappropriately while she was […]
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Canton man acquitted of felony sexual assault, unlawful sexual touching charges
PARIS — An Oxford County jury has acquitted a Canton man of sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2015. Augustus Buck, 44, was found not guilty of gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual touching, both felonies. A jury of seven men and three women heard testimony Wednesday and Thursday and announced its verdict Friday. Jeffrey […]
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Jury acquits Kennebunk man of assault on ex-girlfriend
PARIS — An Oxford County Superior Court jury Tuesday afternoon found a Kennebunk man not guilty of assaulting and threatening his former girlfriend during a camping trip in Rangeley Plantation in 2014. The unanimous verdict for Daniel Kelley, 43, came after less than two hours of deliberation and at the end of the second day of […]
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Jury picked in Auburn man’s road rage trial
AUBURN — The trial of local man accused of racially charged road rage is expected to get underway later this month after Thursday’s jury selection. Adam Getchell, 32, faces two felony charges and two misdemeanors stemming from a 2013 incident. Fourteen jurors, including two alternates, were picked for the case Thursday afternoon. A two-day trial […]
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Lewiston man charged in son’s death seeks to have statements thrown out
AUBURN — A Lewiston man charged with manslaughter in his baby son’s death is seeking to have statements he made to police kept from trial. Sean St. Amand, 28, filed motions through his attorney, George Hess, to bar prosecutors from using statements St. Amand made to police on Oct. 20 during an interrogation. Hess wrote […]
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Defense admits Tsarnaev carried out Boston Marathon bombing
BOSTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial for his life Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing with his own lawyer bluntly telling the jury he committed the crime. But she argued that he had fallen under the influence of his older brother. “It WAS him,” Judy Clarke, one of the nation’s foremost death-penalty defense attorneys, […]
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Jurors hear victim’s blood found on defendant’s pants
AUBURN — Jurors learned Friday that Romeo Parent’s blood was found on a pair of jeans worn by William True. True, 21, of Lewiston, is the second man to be tried for murder in Parent’s death. Michael McNaughton, 27, was convicted by a jury in July. True’s trial in Androscoggin County Superior Court entered its […]