KENNBUNKPORT (AP) — The town of Kennebunkport is asking the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to reconsider its ruling vacating the right to public access to Goose Rocks Beach. The York County Coast Star (http://bit.ly/1hwcM4S) reported that the town says the decision makes it unclear if previous rulings that sided with public access are automatically overturned. […]
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Hayden appeals conviction in New Gloucester slayings
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Massachusetts man convicted of fatally shooting the mother of his four children and one of his best friends in Maine in 2011 is appealing to the state’s highest court. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is scheduled to hear the appeal Wednesday of 32-year-old Joel Hayden of New Bedford, Mass. He was […]
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Convicted murderer Dennis Dechaine’s lawyer says DNA evidence convincing enough to create reasonable doubt
PORTLAND — Dennis Dechaine’s legal team has the odds stacked against it in the convicted murderer’s attempt to use new DNA analysis to win a new trial. Dechaine, a Bowdoinham farmer, was convicted of murdering 12-year-old Sarah Cherry of Bowdoin in 1988. Dechaine is serving a life sentence at the Maine State Prison for the […]
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Convicted murderer Dennis Dechaine’s latest bid for new trial based on new DNA analysis
PORTLAND — Convicted murderer Dennis Dechaine is scheduled for hearings in Portland Superior Court on Thursday and Friday for what could be his final bid for a new trial in the 1988 torture and murder of then 12-year-old Sarah Cherry. Rockland-based lawyer Steven C. Peterson, who represents Dechaine, said Wednesday that months of DNA analysis […]