Legal Opinion
State of Maine v. Joshua R. Nisbet
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided March 1, 2016No. Docket Cum-14-224PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHjelm, J.
[¶ 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 as his fourth and fifth attorneys, because Nisbet had made a direct and express threat to cause serious bodily harm to one of those attorneys in the presence of the other. Based on the combined effect of that threat, Nisbet’s deliberate unwillingness to work with those…
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