Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
Swatting: Another Sign of Free-Floating Societal Madness. Posted by Ed Folsom, January 3, 2024. This past week has been a big one for the “swatting” of public officials. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) reports that she was the … Read More
Independent, Non-commissioned Examination of the Cunniff Report (in re the Sagadahoc S.O.’s response to Robert Card’s Sept. 2023 Terrorizing by Threat of Mass Shooting). Posted by Ed Folsom, December 20, 2023 (edited February 2, 2024 to correct the reference to … Read More
Maine Drug O.D. vs. COVID-19 Deaths To Date. Posted by Ed Folsom, November 28, 2023. As you might expect, Maine drug overdose deaths among people under age 60 versus those age 60 and older are a near mirror image of … Read More
Robert Card: Yellow Flags, Red Flags and Section 922(g). Posted by Ed Folsom, November 16, 2023. Maine Governor Janet Mills has appointed an independent commission to investigate the how and why behind Robert Card’s October 25 mass-murder of 18 people … Read More
How Does a Grievance-Stoking Culture Stop Mass Murders? Posted by Ed Folsom, October 30, 2023. Robert Card, who shot 18 people to death and wounded 13 others in Lewiston, Maine, this past Wednesday evening, is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot … Read More
Trump Indictment The DOJ’s Latest Big Conspiracy Theory. Posted by Ed Folsom August 5, 2023 On Thursday, August 4, 2023, former president Donald Trump was arraigned on an indictment that lays out the Department of Justice’s latest big conspiracy theory … Read More
Progressivism’s Cognitive Infrastructure Police Scrub the Public Square. Posted by Ed Folsom, July 8, 2023. On July 4th, in Missouri v. Biden, a federal judge issued a ruling that enjoins certain U.S. Government administrative agencies and Biden administrative officials from … Read More
Now RFK, Jr., is a Threat to Democracy Too? Posted by Ed Folsom, June 27, 2023. According to the latest-Party-line-thing machinery, RFK, Jr., is now a “threat to democracy.” My local newspaper, the Maine Sunday Telegram, recently picked up an … Read More
Maine Legislature Proceeds With Hearsay Exception For Personal Circumstances. Posted by Ed Folsom June 5, 2023 This is a follow-up to my previous post (here) regarding Maine LD 765 (2023), formerly titled “An Act to Permit Recordings of a Protected … Read More
Posted by Edmund R. Folsom August 12, 2020 U.S. v. Manubolu – Cops Had No Good Reason, For Taking the Easy Way Out. On Monday, August 12, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the State of Maine issued an order … Read More
