Last month, Kennebec County Superior Court Justice Micaela Murphy ruled that the state was failing to fulfill defendants’ Sixth Amendment rights and that a series of hearings would take place to ...

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A full federal appeals court declined to reconsider a panel's decision backing administrators who required a student to ...

Machineguns are both dangerous and unusual not weapons typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” In ...

A Kennebec County Superior Court judge has issued an order after the state of Maine was found to have violated the Sixth Amendment rights of defendants who could not afford a lawyer by failing to ...

The Sixth Circuit Court upheld a 108-month sentence for Memphis man Jaquan Bridges for machinegun possession following a ...

An appellate panel in Cincinnati upheld a man’s conviction for owning a machine gun and limited the protections of the Second ...

“It’s a crisis,” Southern District of California Chief U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant said Friday. “We’ve weathered crises before, and we’ll figure out a way to deal with it, because defendants ...