Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
Second of 3 Mainers Charged in Separate Terrorist Plots Pleads Guilty. Posted by Ed Folsom, January 12, 2024. This time last year, there were 3 people from Maine facing trial on terrorism charges arising from three independent schemes in three … Read More
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
Michael Cohen’s Case Cites & Who Needs Shadowy Cabals When You’ve Got Apparatchiks? Posted by Ed Folsom, December 31, 2023. Disbarred attorney Michael Cohen is back in the news. His attorney recently submitted pleadings in federal court containing citations to … 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
Does Counterman Make it Impossible to Prosecute Terrorizing Under Maine’s Current Statute? Posted by Ed Folsom, December 14, 2023. Warning: As the result of a U.S. Supreme Court case from this past June, something is happening in Maine right now … Read More
Canada’s Deadly Compassion. Posted by Ed Folsom, December 4, 2023. In 2022, 13,241 people received medical “assistance” in dying under Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying law (MAiD). Many of them were euthanized by lethal injection. This represents a 31% increase … 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
One Jihadist Mainer Sentenced to 15 yrs, Second Awaits Trial in NY. Posted by Ed Folsom, November 9, 2023. It’s a strange thing to have 2 Mainers simultaneously facing terrorism charges in entirely unrelated plots for jihadist activities. But that’s … 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
