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Public defender’s offices are opening across Maine. The next step: staffing them.
In Bangor, at the epicenter of the state’s indigent defense crisis, the district defender has only been able to fill one of five positions. MAINE, USA — In a Bangor courtroom last week, Judge Meghan Szylvian ruled the state had violated the constitutional …