AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A trial is underway for a former youth ministry program official in Canaan whose charged with unlawful sexual contact with a young girl. The Kennebec Journal reported (http://bit.ly/2mb2yvv ) the 12-year-old girl testified on Tuesday that Lucas Savage, who was co-director of Youth Haven Ministry, touched her inappropriately while she was […]
trial
Posted inOxford Hills
Canton man acquitted of felony sexual assault, unlawful sexual touching charges
PARIS — An Oxford County jury has acquitted a Canton man of sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2015. Augustus Buck, 44, was found not guilty of gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual touching, both felonies. A jury of seven men and three women heard testimony Wednesday and Thursday and announced its verdict Friday. Jeffrey […]
advertisement
Posted inOxford Hills
Jury acquits Kennebunk man of assault on ex-girlfriend
PARIS — An Oxford County Superior Court jury Tuesday afternoon found a Kennebunk man not guilty of assaulting and threatening his former girlfriend during a camping trip in Rangeley Plantation in 2014. The unanimous verdict for Daniel Kelley, 43, came after less than two hours of deliberation and at the end of the second day of […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Jury picked in Auburn man’s road rage trial
AUBURN — The trial of local man accused of racially charged road rage is expected to get underway later this month after Thursday’s jury selection. Adam Getchell, 32, faces two felony charges and two misdemeanors stemming from a 2013 incident. Fourteen jurors, including two alternates, were picked for the case Thursday afternoon. A two-day trial […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston man charged in son’s death seeks to have statements thrown out
AUBURN — A Lewiston man charged with manslaughter in his baby son’s death is seeking to have statements he made to police kept from trial. Sean St. Amand, 28, filed motions through his attorney, George Hess, to bar prosecutors from using statements St. Amand made to police on Oct. 20 during an interrogation. Hess wrote […]
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
Defense admits Tsarnaev carried out Boston Marathon bombing
BOSTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial for his life Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing with his own lawyer bluntly telling the jury he committed the crime. But she argued that he had fallen under the influence of his older brother. “It WAS him,” Judy Clarke, one of the nation’s foremost death-penalty defense attorneys, […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Jurors hear victim’s blood found on defendant’s pants
AUBURN — Jurors learned Friday that Romeo Parent’s blood was found on a pair of jeans worn by William True. True, 21, of Lewiston, is the second man to be tried for murder in Parent’s death. Michael McNaughton, 27, was convicted by a jury in July. True’s trial in Androscoggin County Superior Court entered its […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston murder suspect headed to trial unless plea deal made
AUBURN — A 21-year-old Lewiston man is expected to go to trial for murder unless he and prosecutors can reach agreement on that charge and others by Nov. 10. William True, charged in the 2013 stabbing and strangulation death of 21-year-old Romeo Parent, is scheduled for a plea hearing in Androscoggin County Superior Court on […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Prosecutors make case in Maine cliff push trial
ROCKLAND (AP) — Prosecutors are continuing to present their case in the trial of a man accused of pushing his then-wife off a cliff in a Maine state park. Charles Black is charged with attempted murder, two counts of elevated aggravated assault and three counts of aggravated assault. Police say Black hit Lisa Zahn in […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Witnesses offer conflicting testimony in McNaughton murder trial
AUBURN — State prosecutors called five more witnesses to the stand Monday, two of whom said Michael McNaughton told them he killed Romeo Parent in April of 2013. But witnesses also offered conflicting testimony about a screwdriver that may be central to the case. McNaughton, 26, is one of two men facing murder charges in […]