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State advisors to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights plan to apply more pressure to Maine leaders to overhaul the state's indigent public defense system with a report that finds the system may disproportionately affect people in federally protected.
He is a Navy veteran; a career lawyer known for his unstinting commitment to the rights of minorities; a justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court who dissented frequently from the majority; a passionate lover of animals; a skilled lifelong jazz sax player; and a devoted husband, father and grandfather.