Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
To Forgive is Divine. To Forget Would be Abject Stupidity. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 23, 2023. On December 22, 2022, a series of news headlines all told us essentially the same thing: U.S. life expectancy dropped again in 2021 … Read More
Who, Whom? January 6 and the undifferentiated breadth of Sarbanes-Oxley. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 14, 2023. In 2002, the U.S. Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley bill. The bill was intended to improve auditing practices and the public disclosure of financial … Read More
Update on Three Maine Men Charged with Terrorism. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 8, 2023 On Friday, April 7, 2023, Xavier Pelkey, of Waterville, one of three Maine men currently facing terrorism charges for plots or actions outside Maine, pleaded … Read More
Outrageous! But it could never happen in this country, could it? Posted by Ed Folsom, March 31, 2023. A Russian father, Alexei Moskalyov, was convicted and sentenced to 2 years in prison on Tuesday for his social media postings criticizing … Read More
Proposed Maine Law Bases Hearsay Admissibility on the Group You Belong to, or Don’t. Posted by Ed Folsom, March 22, 2023 Lots of proposed legislation gets presented to the Maine legislature each year. A former colleague from the criminal defense … Read More
“Ramping up the messaging – the fear/guilt factor vital.” Posted by Ed Folsom, March 5, 2023. Leaked WhatsApp messages between former U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock and others, discussing fear as a primary tool to achieve compliance with government COVID-19 … Read More
Posted by Ed Folsom, March 2, 2023. Maine CDC Disappears Certain of its COVID-19 Data. Well, they made it disappear. The Maine CDC has stopped posting the age breakdown of COVID-19 cases and deaths throughout the pandemic, as well as … Read More
Should Maine reestablish parole to correct racial disparities in incarceration rates? Posted by Ed Folsom, February 28, 2022. The Commission to Examine Reestablishing Parole and its December 2022 Report. In December of 2022, a commission formed by the Maine Legislature, … Read More
More Maine OD Deaths 3/1/20-12/31/22 Than All Pandemic COVID Deaths Under Age 80. Posted by Ed Folsom February 6, 2023 According to the recently released Maine Monthly Overdose Report for December 2022, 716 people died from drug overdoses in Maine … Read More
Maine Drug Overdose Deaths Continue to Rise. Posted by Ed Folsom, January 27, 2023, Updated March 2, 2023. The numbers for year 2022 Maine drug overdose deaths, through November, are in. They are not good. According to the Maine Drug … Read More
