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AUGUSTA - The underfunding of the Maine court system is undermining the promise of justice made in the preamble of the Maine Constitution, the head of the judiciary told the Legislature on Tuesday in her annual address.
Leigh I. Saufley, chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, urged lawmakers to support the governor's proposed budget for the judiciary that would, among other things, address staffing shortages in clerks' offices around the state and add two case managers to the eight now serving the family court division.See the full content of this document
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Judiciary Needs Money, State Is Told
"The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reviews employees per capita for delivery of justice in every state in the nation," she said Tuesday. "Maine has fallen to 50th.
"Maine is last...See the full content of this document
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