AUBURN — Bryan Wood was charged with arson in 2008. A year later, the charge was dropped and he was released after a judge found he wasn’t competent — due to mental retardation, now called intellectual disability disorder — to stand trial, and his status wasn’t likely to change. The Lewiston man was back in […]
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Lewiston man gets time-served for burglaries
AUBURN — A judge apologized Wednesday to a Lewiston man before sentencing him to time served and a year of probation on five burglary charges. “You slipped through the cracks,” Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice MaryGay Kennedy told Daniel Ouellette. Kennedy said the fact that Ouellette sat in jail for more than 10 months after […]
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Judge takes would-be jurors to task for absences
AUBURN — A judge on Wednesday admonished eight men and women for missing jury duty half a dozen times. Many said they were single parents who worked. Some said it was due to medical problems. Most said they had no excuse and apologized. After taking the bench, Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice MaryGay Kennedy read […]
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Judge denies bail to Greene man charged with murder
AUBURN — A judge on Tuesday denied bail to a Greene man who is charged with murder in the April slaying of Romeo Parent. Nathan Morton, 24, was in Androscoggin County Superior Court for a hearing. His attorney, George Hess, argued that Morton could be released from Androscoggin County Jail to live at his parents’ […]