Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
Northern New England Judges Hit Bad Patch With Appearances of Impropriety. Posted by Ed Folsom, October 26, 2024. In a series of bad looks for the black-robed group, judges in northern New England have hit a rough patch with appearances … Read More
One Year After Lewiston, What Might Help Prevent a Repeat? Posted by Ed Folsom, October 24, 2024 As the one-year mark approaches since Robert Card murdered 18 people and wounded 13 others on October 25, 2023, in Lewiston, what have … Read More
ICE Dockets 15,272 Non-Citizens With Homicide Convictions or Charges. Posted by Ed Folsom, September 30, 2024. (Photo, Brian Snyder/Reuters) Last week, Patrick J. Lechleitner, Deputy Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent a letter to the U.S. House of … Read More
Sorry, There’s No Lawyer For You, But We’re Working On It, Really. Posted by Ed Folsom, September 24, 2024. From a story in today’s Portland Press Herald, headlined “Waterville man pleads not guilty In February Shooting death”: “District Court Judge … Read More
Two Narcissistic, Nihilist Mass Killers In Their Own Words. Posted by Ed Folsom, September 7, 2024. The Covenant School Mass Murderer, Nashville, Tennessee 3/27/2023. On Monday, March 27, 2023, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who often referred to herself as Aiden Hale, … Read More
Posted by Ed Folsom, August 31, 2024. If This Sickness is Allowed to Metastasize Further, It Cannot Possibly End Well. I have returned from Montenegro and Croatia to the rapidly cooling, late August climate of Maine. It was a … Read More
Buckets of U.S. Dollars for Everyone — You Get a House and You Get a House! Posted by Ed Folsom, August 17, 2024 (typo-edited upon return from travels, 8/29/24). I’m about to travel to places that were once governed under … Read More
Kamala Harris, “Border Czar” — What Can be, Unburdened by What has Been. Posted by Ed Folsom, July 28, 2024. Photo: July 13, 2024, Kevin Mohatt/Reuters. This past week, in the wake of President Biden’s announcement that he has withdrawn … Read More
Germany’s Leaked Covid Protocols Reveal the Political in the “Science.” Posted by Ed Folsom, July 26, 2024. The pseudonymous German blogger Eugyppius recently blogged a summary of highlights from the COVID-19 protocols of Germany’s public health authorities. Just this week, … Read More
President Biden says U.S. Violent Crime Rate at 50-year Low -True or False? Posted by Ed Folsom, July 25, 2024. Photo: Evan Vucci, Pool, AP. Last night, in his prime-time address to the nation, President Biden touted a series of … Read More
