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When police are investigating a potential crime, they have a lot of tools at their disposal. One of the most powerful, however, is your consent. If you consent to a search, then it doesn’t matter how unlawful that search is, or how much it violates your rights. Because you allowed

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One thing that often surprises people who get arrested for something is how many crimes they end up being charged with. One action can break numerous laws, and law enforcement will throw the book at you, charging you for everything that they can think of. While some of these charges

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Laws have a unique way of evolving as time goes on. When the legislature – whether the Maine State Legislature or the U.S. Congress – creates a law and passes it, the words that they put in that law are always going to have a certain amount of ambiguity. Inevitably,

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In a recent blog post, we talked about how things that you say during a plea discussion cannot be used against you in a subsequent trial. The source for this is Rule 410 in the Maine Rules of Evidence. However, lawyers love to argue and fight for their client’s best

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If you’re being investigated for a crime, or even after you’ve been arrested for one, there are a lot of moving parts in the criminal justice system that you’ll never see, but that still seriously impact your future. One of these moving parts is the grand jury process. What is

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