STATE v. NISBET

Docket No. Cum-14-224.

134 A.3d 840 (2016)

2016 ME 36

STATE of Maine v. Joshua R. NISBET.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: March 1, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jamesa J. Drake, Esq. (orally), Drake Law, LLC, Auburn, for appellant Joshua R. Nisbet.

Stephanie Anderson , District Attorney, and Robert L. Ellis , Asst. Dist. Atty., Prosecutorial District No. Two, Portland, for appellee State of Maine.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Leanne Robbin , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for amicus curiae Maine Office of the Attorney General.

Patrick Lyons , Stud. Atty., and Christopher Northrop, Esq. , Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, Portland, and David Bobrow, Esq. , Bedard and Bobrow, PC, Eliot, for amicus curiae Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Zachary L. Heiden, Esq. , American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation, Portland, for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation.

Panel: ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, and HJELM, JJ.


[¶ 1] Joshua R. Nisbet was convicted of robbery (Class A), 17-A M.R.S. § 651(1)(E) (2015), in the Unified Criminal Docket (Cumberland County, Warren, J.) after a jury trial. Nisbet proceeded to trial without representation by counsel after the court permitted the withdrawal of two attorneys who had represented him jointly...

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