Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
A Public Defender Administering Contracts for Maine? Posted by Edmund R. Folsom October 12, 2015 A lot of lawyers who do indigent criminal defense work in Maine are worried about LD 1433, “An Act to Create the Office of the … Read More
Posted By Edmund Folsom August 14, 2015 PORTLAND FALSE RAPE REPORT- THESE THINGS HAPPEN. On Wednesday, August 12, 2015, a 34-year old woman (who at this point remains publicly unnamed) reported that she was raped at midday on Portland’s Back Cove trail. … Read More
Posted by: Edmund R. Folsom, Esq. Date: May 16, 2015 State v. Tozier, The Intoxilizer 8000 & The HairFibber2000 In State v. Tozier, 2015 ME 57, Maine’s Law Court recently decided that the Confrontation Clause of the U.S. Constitution does not require … Read More
Edmund R. Folsom, Esq. Date: May 1, 2015 OUI & THC LEVEL- LOSING SIGHT OF THE CRIME’S PURPOSE. Here I will spill a few words on the legislative effort to define the crime of OUI to include operating a motor … Read More
Posted by: Edmund R. Folsom, Esq. Date: April 26, 2015 RODRIGUEZ AND THE DOGS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT On April 21, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Rodriguez v. United States. These days, police routinely expand traffic … Read More
RECORD POLICE- IF THEY’VE DONE NOTHING WRONG THEY HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE Posted By: Edmund R, Folsom, Esq. Date: April 12, 2015 DISCLAIMER: The following is not legal advice. It is not intended as legal advice and should not be … Read More
Sarbanes-Oxley, Short Fish & Federal Overkill. Yates v. United States, 514 U.S. __ (Decided February 25, 2015), is an interesting case. Yates was a fishing boat captain, on a multi-day fishing run off the coast of Florida, when his boat … Read More
THE 1ST AMENDMENT & THE COWED PRESS. Posted by Edmund R. Folsom, Esq. January 10, 2015 Free speech is under attack in the free nations of the western world, in a way more effective than I have otherwise seen in … Read More
LIE-INS, DIE-INS AND POLICE SHOOTINGS Posted December 7, 2014 By Edmund R. Folsom Just as every cop is a criminal And all the sinners saints As heads is tails Just call me Lucifer ‘Cause I’m in need of some … Read More
SEARCHES & SEIZURES, LIBERTY VS. SECURITY Posted by Edmund R. Folsom October 18, 2014 A few loosely related matters caught my attention in the news yesterday. One was a piece by Charles Krauthammer, in which he criticized President Obama for once declaring that … Read More
