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?
