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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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Because we live in a country that relies on an adversarial system of criminal justice, you can count on law enforcement to do everything it can to punish you as much as possible. To do this, police and prosecutors try to get all the evidence against you that they can

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For police to search you for evidence or arrest you for a crime, they need a search warrant or an arrest warrant. If they don’t have a warrant, then their search or their seizure has to fall within a limited set of exceptions to the warrant requirement. For example, if

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In our last blog post, we recounted how law enforcement could easily manipulate eyewitnesses to make them give damning testimony against you if you’ve been charged with a crime. One way that this can happen is through photo arrays – a binder or computer database of mugshots. If these photos

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