BOWLER v. STATE

Docket No. Ken-14-201.

108 A.3d 1257 (2014)

2014 ME 157

Phillip M. BOWLER Sr. v. STATE of Maine.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: December 31, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip M. Bowler Sr., appellant pro se.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Phyllis Gardiner , Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee Office of the Attorney General.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, and HJELM, JJ.


[¶ 1] In 2013, pursuant to the Freedom of Access Act (FOAA), 1 M.R.S. §§ 400-414 (2014), Phillip M. Bowler Sr. requested, and was subsequently denied, access to an investigative file held by the Attorney General concerning a death that occurred in 1953. Bowler appealed the denial of his request to the Superior Court pursuant...

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