The Maine Supreme Judicial Courtroom reversed a judgment of the post-conviction assessment court docket and instructed it to weigh all related components, together with protection counsel technique, after it denied a defendant’s declare that he had ineffective help of counsel when his court-appointed legal professionals failed to claim his proper to a speedy trial.
Dennis F. Winchester was charged in six separate circumstances of housebreaking and theft-related offenses between June 2014 and March 2015 whereas already incarcerated for an additional offense. The time between when he was initially charged within the circumstances at concern to the time that they had been resolved ranged from 33 to 42 months, in line with the Maine Supreme Judicial Courtroom’s opinion filed March 30.
