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Symposium Panel: Ensuring Access Tojustice In Maine’S Rural Communities, Kevin Stitham, Sarah Gilbert, Toby Jandreau, Adam Swanson
Symposium Panel: Ensuring Access Tojustice In Maine’S Rural Communities, Kevin Stitham, Sarah Gilbert, Toby Jandreau, Adam Swanson
Maine Law Review
The dichotomy between the greater Portland area and Route One corridor, and Maine’s rural inland and Down East communities, is stark in many ways—economic, cultural, political, and spatial. These differences converge when it comes to the availability and accessibility of process and justice, and find particularly vivid expression in Maine’s well documented rural lawyer shortage. How is the rural lawyer shortage affecting Maine’s rural communities, what steps are being taken to address those problems, and what more can be done? In short, what can be done to ensure Maine’s rural communities are not denied an effective justice system?
Bail Reform And Intimate Partner Violence In Maine, Mac Walton
Bail Reform And Intimate Partner Violence In Maine, Mac Walton
Maine Law Review
The bail reform movement is leading to pretrial practice changes across the country, largely aimed at reducing pretrial detention rates or uncoupling pretrial detention from money. These reforms often include expanding or formalizing the role of actuarial risk assessment tools in bail determinations. Maine has not enacted bail reforms to expressly reduce pretrial detention, but since 2015, Maine courts have been using a risk assessment tool in bail decisions in intimate partner violence cases. Analysis of risk assessment practices in Kentucky and New Jersey, in comparison with the particular considerations in IPV cases, can inform Maine’s current bail system and …
Felon Jurors In Vacationland, James M. Binnall
Felon Jurors In Vacationland, James M. Binnall
Maine Law Review
Maine is the only jurisdiction in the United States that places no limitations on a convicted felon’s juror eligibility. Instead, Maine screens prospective felon-jurors using their normal jury selection procedures. In recent years, scholars have suggested that meaningful community engagement can help facilitate former offenders’ reintegration and criminal desistance. From that theoretical posture, a number of empirical studies have explored the connection between participation in the electorate and the reentry of former offenders. Those studies suggest that voting has the potential to prompt pro-social changes among former offenders. Still, to date, no research has focused on jury service as a …
Book Review: An Examination Of Maine's Public Beach Access, Ariel A. Hampton
Book Review: An Examination Of Maine's Public Beach Access, Ariel A. Hampton
Ocean and Coastal Law Journal
Many people assume that access rights to public resources are unwavering. Two Maine Supreme Judicial Court cases concerning limitations to public access to Maine beaches rebut this assumption. In his book, Maine's Beaches Are Public Property: The Bell Cases Must Be Reexamined, Professor Orlando E. Delogu challenges the modifications to public beach access that resulted from these two cases. This Review focuses on the historical and legal arguments that Professor Delogu presents as justification for the reversal of the Bell cases. Professor Delogu gives compelling reasons for his take on the Bell cases and why the State of Maine should …