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Did you know that 20% of Maine’s population has been impacted by the criminal justice system? More than 40,000 Mainers cycle through our prisons and jails annually.
I am now one of them. Because of the stalking conviction, I won't be able to work in a school again for a while. I began my cleaning business one summer and later quit my Ed Tech job.
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The Maine Supreme Court occassionally holds oral arguments at Maine high schools. They were in Bingham on October 7, 2025. Here's a link to the video.
There is a 50 minute delay before anything happens, so you should advance to that point in the video. The two cases argued were relevant to mine. The first was State v. Dennis Lemieux (KEN 2024-341). At 1:14:00 the lawyer for LeMieux, Dan Lawson, mentions Counterman v. Colorado, a U.S. Supreme Court case involving stalking or terrorizing charges, and mens rea...intent. The justices sent the case back to Colorado.
You can read the explanation at Wikipedia, but basically the case is about the standard for determining whether certain speech (such as social media posts), are free speech or a true threat. Because of the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision, the standard for determining whether speech is protected or a true threat was changed. It should have helped me regarding the charges against me, for stalking...but it didn't.
The other case the Maine justices heard was Robbins v Maine Commission on Public Defense Services (KEN 2025-137). A class action 6th Amendment case was filed by the ACLU in 2022, and is related. What was being discussed was habeas corpus...whether criminal defendants should be released if not appointed attorneys within a set number of days.
There's already been a decision by a Maine judge, Micaela Murphy, in Robbins. She said when the state fails to appoint counsel, defendants should be released, and once attorneys are available, the cases refiled if the state chooses. Well, the reason her order isn't being implemented is there's a public safety concern. Attorneys for the Commission also claim that no class action defendant was without counsel during crucial stages of their case.
HELLO! I didn't get an attorney at all in Aroostook County, and spent 4 nights in jail for failure to appear; then the case against me was dismissed for no other reason than District Attorney Todd Collins said I had been punished enough for the FTA.
Regarding the charges for stalking and violations of protection order, I was arrested by Lewiston police based on warrants from Lincoln County in March of 2025; and I wasn't given an attorney until September! By then 5 Lewiston police officers had breeched my door, and taken my Iphone without a warrant, releasing me from jail after midnight, two miles from my home. There were a total of 5 arrests, many of them for social media posts.
Our laws and statutes are too complicated, and the legal process so difficult to navigate. I wonder what the children learned on October 7 2025. Did any of them do some research afterward, and discover that there are controversies regarding the Counterman case? Do they know who Coles Whalen is? Do they realize the seriousness of the violations of the right to counsel, and that the problem has been lingering in the courts for 4 years now, without real relief for defendants?
I'm about to leave for Wiscasset. I'm being sentenced today after being convicted of stalking, by a Maine jury on 2-24-26. I would not accept a plea because I'm innocent. The judge and lawyers control what a jury sees and hears, or doesn't get to.
12 of 14 counts were dismissed on the day of trial, and that's something that the jury should have been informed of, as it's a good indication this is a malicious prosecution. I was found not guilty of violations of a protection order. Due to the allegations, I've suffered much distress and damage to my reputation as well as loss of income.
The protection order has since been extended; of course no judge will admit he was wrong or that another judge was. A condition on the order says that I cannot post personally identifiable information about the state's witness.
I'm being silenced. My story hasn't been reported by Maine or national media outlets. The D.A. wanted to give me CTS credit for time served; I suppose he's referring to the 30 or so hours spent in Androscoggin County jail (one overnight) after the arrests. I've been punished, but I'm innocent. District Attorney Kent Murdick now wants me to serve 30 days in jail! It's punishment for exercising my right to due process of the law, which I still haven't received.
Robert Garza, a victim of parental alienation himself, has been helping people nationwide, to pass legislation aimed at preventing it...and other types of coercive control/abuse. His team came to Maine last month. I attended the event in Trenton.
At this link, you can chat with others (through Messenger) who are grouped according to what state (or country) they are in. We must demand that our government (legislative, executive, and judicial branches), both state and federal, address our concerns about the lack of due process in our courts.
Here's a good read regarding parental alienation. Here's something from the article:
The “Time Taken Time Back” law and the “3 Strike Law for Interference with Child Custody” are critical steps in this process. These legal reforms ensure that parents are not unjustly cut off from their children and that those who attempt to manipulate the system face real consequences.
By focusing on both reforming family/criminal law and supporting healthy co-parenting practices, we can ensure that the best interests of children remain at the forefront of family/ criminal law decisions, bringing about the change that families so desperately need.
An officer, Mathew Furman, was found not guilty regarding the deployment of a taser in one case on a mother, in the presence of her children. A jury found him not guilty of that, but in another case in which he tasered a man, found him guilty. In a third case, he plead guilty before trial. Here's the Youtube video on America's Attorney.
I'll be posting Youtube videos at my Youtube channel more often, and I've created a Patreon account called Maine Incarcerationland. It's free to sign up. My more lengthy posts will be be posted there.
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