PORTLAND A Lisbon man convicted of attempted murder of Auburn police argued through his lawyer Monday before the state’s highest court that he should be granted a new trial because his trial attorney had blocked him from testifying in his defense. Bartolo Ford, 57, was convicted by a jury in 2010 of aggravated attempted […]
AUBURN A Lisbon man convicted at trial of aggravated attempted murder of a local police officer in 2010 argued Thursday that his legal counsel was ineffective in assisting him. Bartolo Ford took the witness stand in Androscoggin County Superior Court, something he said he’d wanted to do during the trial. The final day of […]