Samantha Hogan

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Samantha Hogan focuses on government accountability projects for The Maine Monitor. Samantha joined the newsroom as its first full-time reporter in 2019 with Report for America. Samantha was named the 2021 Maine’s Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press Association, and spent 2020 reporting on Maine’s court system through the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. She previously worked for The Frederick News-Post, covering state politics, agriculture, the environment and energy, and interned twice for The Washington Post.

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Settlement talks on ACLU’s indigent legal services lawsuit are progressing, both sides say

Carol Garvan, legal director of the ACLU of Maine, and a lawyer for the state both said they are making progress on a multi-year agreement.

BySamantha Hogan

April 7, 2023

Numerous shelves packed with folders of court case files.

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Maine courts may take until 2028 to touch backlog of cases

Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill says the judicial branch is "frail" following her State of the Judiciary speech.

BySamantha Hogan

March 23, 2023

A mostly empty courtroom with only the judge and a court employee in the room.

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Advisors to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urge Maine lawmakers to pay for indigent defense

Lawmakers recommend keeping $150 an hour pay raise for lawyers and adding a $3 million public defender office.

BySamantha Hogan

March 9, 2023

A phone hangs on a wall inside a common area at a jail.

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Maine lawmakers consider making jail phone calls to lawyers free

Proposed legislation seeks to protect defendant rights to attorney-client privilege in jails.

BySamantha Hogan

March 5, 2023

Justin Andrus poses for a photo with the dome of the Maine State House in the distance.

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Executive director of Maine’s public defense agency will resign

Justin Andrus will be second lawyer to leave MCILS this year

BySamantha Hogan

February 21, 2023

The frame that once held the sign for the law offices of Christopher James Whalley.

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Ellsworth lawyer criminally indicted for alleged theft from deceased client

Christopher Whalley, who was disbarred in December 2022, is charged with theft by misapplication.

BySamantha Hogan

February 15, 2023

A silhouette image of Justin Andrus, posing for a photo with the dome of the Maine State House in the distant background.

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State officials say legal work for poor clients will continue after resignation of top public defender

Nathaniel Seth Levy announced he would depart from Maine's budding public defender project last Friday.

BySamantha Hogan

January 26, 2023

Samantha Hogan

Settlement talks on ACLU’s indigent legal services lawsuit are progressing, both sides say

Maine courts may take until 2028 to touch backlog of cases

Advisors to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urge Maine lawmakers to pay for indigent defense

Maine lawmakers consider making jail phone calls to lawyers free

Executive director of Maine’s public defense agency will resign

Ellsworth lawyer criminally indicted for alleged theft from deceased client

State officials say legal work for poor clients will continue after resignation of top public defender

Here are the latest figures on the highest-paid employees at Maine’s private universities

Washington County condo complex near Cutler Navy base deals with water pollution by “forever chemicals”

As residential care homes expand in Maine, seniors don’t always get the care they need

Homeless people ponder next destination as Portland housing crisis intensifies

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