Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
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
A remedy for, and the prosecution’s role in, sixth amendment violations in Maine. Posted by Ed Folsom, March 25, 2025. In early March, Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy issued an order on the ACLU’s long-running lawsuit against the Maine Commission … Read More
The Ultra-Low Moral Foundation of the Fascism/Fascist Epithet. Posted by Ed Folsom, February 22, 2025. (Photo: Fox News Digital. Anti-Trump Rally, Washington D.C., January 20, 2025.) “The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it … Read More
“To Overthrow the World”- Woke, “Antifascist” Monsters. Posted by Ed Folsom, February 16, 2025. “Look, let me tell you something. I’ll take a bit of umbrage here. I’ll speak on behalf of my colleagues. I think I can say we … Read More
