PORTLAND — The state’s highest court on Thursday denied a Sabattus man a new trial in the fatal shooting death of his ex-girlfriend and mother of their 2-year-old daughter. Daniel Roberts, 45, claimed that his constitutional rights had been violated during his 2007 murder trial in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn. Roberts was convicted […]

The state’s highest court heard arguments Wednesday that the public was barred from the courtroom during a Sabattus man’s 2007 murder trial, denying him his constitutional rights. The Androscoggin County Superior Court trial judge, Justice Joyce Wheeler, allowed Daniel Roberts, 45, to send the case back to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court for a second […]

PORTLAND — A Sabattus man who killed his ex-girlfriend at his home in 2005 cleared the first hurdle in his bid for a new trial. Daniel Roberts failed in his effort to seek a new trial when his trial judge ruled last summer that his constitutional rights had not been violated following a hearing on […]

AUBURN — A Sabattus man who murdered his ex-girlfriend in 2005 is again seeking to have the state’s high court vacate his 2007 conviction in a bid for a new trial. Daniel Roberts, 44, failed in his efforts to have his trial judge throw out his conviction after his attorney later argued that aspects of […]