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James Howaniec: Get politics out of Maine’s indigent defense system
It is time to get politics out of the constitutional right of everyone especially the poor to an attorney when charged with a crime. It is one of the most basic rights afforded to citizens in a society that endeavors to call itself free.
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James Howaniec
I have been practicing criminal law in Androscoggin County for some 35 years. During that time, other criminal defense lawyers and I have represented thousands of Maine’s most desperately poor in local courts. We have done our job exceedingly well perhaps too well, as powers that be in Augusta and Portland, year after year, unconstitutionally attempt to defund our small budget.