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MARTIN v. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

Docket: Kno-17-51.

190 A.3d 237 (2018)

2018 ME 103

Charles M. MARTIN v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 24, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. James Burke, Esq. , and Alec Youngblood , Stud. Atty. (orally), Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, Portland, for appellant Charles M. Martin.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and James E. Fortin , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee State of Maine.

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

[¶ 1] This case calls for us to consider whether in Maine, pursuant to the "prisoner mailbox rule," a pro se prisoner's civil petition for review of a decision by the Department of Corrections should be deemed "filed" on the date it is delivered to prison officials to be forwarded to the clerk of court rather than the date it is received...

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