Category: Criminal Defense

Not everyone can know all there is to understand about the law. There’s so much out there to understand, that even attorneys focus on a small area of the law to practice in, like wills, or corporate law, or criminal defense. However, there are some, basic legal ideas that at

In a couple of recent blog posts, we discussed both the basics of bail, and how to post it in Maine. In those posts, we discussed that bail is money you can give to the court, to assure it that you’ll show up for your upcoming court dates. You can

All different levels of law enforcement, from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) all the way down to your local police department, have always claimed to use only the best and most accurate scientific methods to investigate crime. Unfortunately, this has been far from the case. As has been shown

When they were writing criminal laws, lawmakers determined that what was going through a person’s mind should be a crucial element in determining how serious of a crime they were committing, or even if they were committing a crime, at all. After all, it’s not very fair if one person

In criminal courts, including Maine’s, what was going through a person’s mind is a crucial part of whether what they did was a crime, or not. This is a crime’s requirement that someone have a “culpable state of mind” in order to be convicted for violating the law. A person’s