Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
Perspective on Breakthrough COVID, Drug O.D. Deaths in Maine. Posted by Ed Folsom, October 10, 2022. Although it’s still dangerous to career and reputation to say it, information is slowly emerging that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are less safe than … Read More
“It appears…Maine is willing to hold no one accountable for this.” Posted By Ed Folsom, October 5, 2022. I discussed State of Maine v. Bruce Akers a couple of posts ago. Akers was convicted of murder, but the State later … Read More
COVID Cognitive Distortions, The Wheedle and the Damage Done. Posted by Ed Folsom, September 4, 2022. Maine’s labor participation rate of 59% is the eighth lowest in the U.S., two points below the national average and the lowest in … Read More
A Convicted Killer Goes Free for Constitutional Violations, and It’s the Cops’ Fault. Posted by Ed Folsom, September 1, 2022. The State recently dismissed a murder indictment against Bruce Akers even though Akers was already convicted of murder under the … Read More
Maine Government Navel-Gazes as Indigent Defense System Burns. Posted by Ed Folsom, August 24, 2022. To begin, Maine has no public defender’s office. Instead, Maine courts determine if a person is indigent and otherwise eligible for court-appointed counsel. The court … Read More
So Much They Said Was Scientific Truth Was Just Plain Untrue. Posted by Ed Folsom, July 12, 2022. Remember when people were fired from their jobs because they didn’t take the COVID “jabs?” Remember that the rationale was that COVID-19 … Read More
An Attack on Democracy? Dobbs or Rowe? Posted by Ed Folsom, July 3, 2022. How is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health an attack on democracy? It isn’t, and here’s why. The Constitutional Background. Democracy is rule by the will … Read More
Disturbing SPLC Poll on Assassination Fondness, Schumer’s “Whirlwind.” Posted by Ed Folsom, June 9, 2022. A recent poll from the extreme left partisan Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) takes on new significance with yesterday’s arrest of a 26-year-old California crackpot … Read More
Cannons and the Seconmemment: Let Truth Be No Object, Absolutely. Posted by Ed Folsom June 3, 2022. President Biden is back with his old chestnut that “The second amendment is not absolute.” He often bolsters it with the falsehood that … Read More
Wokeists, Russia’s 1922 Criminal Code & The Domestic Terrorism Act of 2022. Posted by Ed Folsom, 5/27/2022. In Volume I of The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn observes that those who do great evil don’t think of themselves as doing evil. … Read More
