Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
Up or down, there’s no curiosity about the seemingly odd goings-on. As 2025 comes to a close, the number of criminal cases filed annually in Maine courts continues to decline. It also looks like the number of indigent criminal defense … Read More
Yes, Chinese-style speech suppression could happen here (The revolution will not be televised). Posted by Ed Folsom, November 30, 2025 The Cyberspace Administration of China recently enacted a set of rules barring social media influencers from posting content on “‘serious’ … Read More
Posted by Ed Folsom, October 20, 2025. The evil in dopey change unburdened by what has been. (Symbol of Communist Party U.S.A.) “No Kings” day indeed, except oversees where they have actual kings. In those places, it was “No Tyrants” … Read More
Does Maine’s Assigned-Counsel-Sometimes Reality Satisfy the 6th Amendment? Posted by Ed Folsom, October 13, 2025 There was recent action in the ACLU’s lawsuit against the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services (MCPDS) and other state entities for failing to adequately … Read More
Violent Haters in Love and Unity, Then and Now. Posted by Ed Folsom, September 30, 2025. Frank Hurley/NY Daily News via Getty Images, via ABC News News broke late last week that Assata Shakur died, at age 78, in Cuba. … Read More
Czechs Criminalize Communist Propaganda, U.S. Kids Swoon Over Socialism. Posted by Ed Folsom, September 10, 2025. The inspiration for this post comes from three sources: A news item about a new law in the Czech Republic that explicitly places Communism on … Read More
The Narrative That Aided Russia’s Aims While Purporting to Expose Them. Posted by Ed Folsom, July 26, 2025. Without getting into the merits or lack of merit of recent DOJ criminal referrals for Barack Obama and other members of his … Read More
Maine state government wrestles over the separation of powers. Posted by Ed Folsom, June 2, 2025 Separation of powers: who decides what falls within the powers of each branch of government? The separation of powers is a key part of … Read More
The End of Michael Geilenfeld’s Judicial Lottery Story. Posted by Ed Folsom, May 25, 2025. (Revised to include link to Miami Herald story May 31, 2025). This is my third blog touching on the very strange story of Michael Geilenfeld … Read More
Does York County Show the Way to Solving Maine’s Stubborn Criminal Case Backlog? Posted by Ed Folsom, April 16, 2025. While Maine’s Unified Criminal Docket (UCD) remains backlogged by some 5,700 pending cases compared to the number of pending UCD … Read More
