Maine
Maine Revised Statutes — Title 15, Court Procedure — Criminal
526 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 1 — Superior Court; criminal jurisdiction
- § 1001 — Title
- § 1002 — Legislative findings; statement of purpose
- § 1003 — Definitions
- § 1004 — Applicability and exclusions
- § 101 — Mental examination and observation of persons accused of crime (REPEALED)
- § 101-A — Access to records by persons or entities performing examinations or evaluations (REPEALED)
- § 101-B — Mental examination and observation of persons accused of crime (REPEALED)
- § 101-C — Access to records by persons or entities performing examinations or evaluations
- § 101-D — Mental examination of persons accused of crime
- § 102 — No responsibility for criminal act produced by mental disease or defect (REPEALED)
- § 1021 — Superior Court and Supreme Judicial Court Justices
- § 1022 — District Court Judges
- § 1023 — Bail commissioners
- § 1024 — Clerks of court
- § 1025 — Law enforcement officers
- § 1025-A — County jail employees
- § 1026 — Standards for release for crime bailable as of right preconviction
- § 1027 — Standards for release for formerly capital offenses
- § 1028 — De novo determination of bail under section 1026
- § 1028-A — De novo determination of bail set by a justice or judge acting under section 1026
- § 1029 — Review of bail under section 1027
- § 103 — Commitment following acceptance of negotiated insanity plea or following verdict or finding of insanity
- § 103-A — Commitment affected by certain sentences
- § 1030 — State's attorney present at certain proceedings; opportunity to present relevant information
- § 1031 — Bail if no indictment
- § 104 — Release and discharge, hearing, payment of fees (REPEALED)
- § 104-A — Release and discharge, hearing, payment of fees
- § 104-B — Failure of patient to return
- § 105 — Authority to receive persons for observation committed by the United States District Court. (REPEALED)
- § 1051 — Post-conviction bail
- § 106 — Involuntary medication of incompetent defendant
- § 107 — Involuntary medication of patient
- § 1071 — Sureties to make statement of property
- § 1072 — Responsibility of sureties
- § 1072-A — Advising the surety
- § 1073 — Termination of surety or cash bail agreement
- § 1073-A — Precondition to forfeiture of cash or other property of surety if a defendant violates a condition of release; notice (REPEALED)
- § 1074 — Property of defendant and 3rd parties as bail
- § 1075 — Attorney not to act as surety or deposit cash bail for client
- § 108 — Court-ordered independent examinations
- § 109 — Committee for the oversight of patient human rights
- § 1091 — Failure to appear; penalty
- § 1091-A — Failure to report
- § 1092 — Violation of condition of release
- § 1093 — Revocation of preconviction bail (REPEALED)
- § 1094 — Forfeiture of bail; enforcement
- § 1094-A — Improper contact after bail has been revoked and denied
- § 1094-B — Improper contact with a family or household member prior to the setting of preconviction bail
- § 1094-C — Improper contact with alleged murder victim's family or household member
- § 1095 — Proceedings for revocation of preconviction bail
- § 1096 — Grounds for revocation of preconviction bail
- § 1097 — Disposition after revocation of preconviction bail
- § 1098 — Proceedings for revocation of post-conviction bail
- § 1099 — Grounds for revocation of post-conviction bail
- § 1099-A — Disposition after revocation of post-conviction bail
- § 1101 — Forms and rules
- § 1102 — Detention of juveniles charged as adults (REPEALED)
- § 1103 — Summary contempt proceeding involving a punitive sanction
- § 1104 — Material witness; arrest and bail
- § 1105 — Substance use disorder treatment program
- § 1121 — Limitations on examination of sexually explicit material
- § 1201 — Power of court unaffected by existence or expiration of term
- § 1202 — Postponement or continuance
- § 1203 — Trial to proceed when dilatory pleas overruled (REPEALED)
- § 1204 — Respondent present at felony trial; otherwise excused (REPEALED)
- § 1205 — Certain out-of-court statements made by minors or persons with developmental disabilities describing sexual contact
- § 1251 — List of grand jurors
- § 1252 — Oaths
- § 1253 — Affirmations
- § 1254 — Juror's oath or affirmation in cases punishable by imprisonment
- § 1255 — Foreman (REPEALED)
- § 1255-A — Grand jury territorial authority to indict for crimes
- § 1256 — Grand jury to present all crimes
- § 1257 — Disclosures improper (REPEALED)
- § 1258 — Juries for criminal offenses; challenges
- § 1258-A — Voir dire
- § 1259 — Challenges for cause
- § 1260 — View by jury
- § 1311 — Recognizance of witnesses (REPEALED)
- § 1312 — No fees to state witnesses
- § 1313 — Punishment of state witness for nonattendance
- § 1314 — No witness fees until 2nd or 3rd day in continued cases
- § 1314-A — Compelling evidence in criminal or juvenile proceedings; immunity
- § 1315 — Self-incrimination; failure to testify; spouse as witness
- § 1316 — Depositions (REPEALED)
- § 1317 — List of witnesses
- § 1318 — Prosecuting attorneys
- § 1319 — Authorization of payments by a prosecuting attorney
- § 1320 — Authorization of payment of witness fees of state witnesses in criminal prosecutions
- § 1321 — Child witnesses in certain sex crime cases
- § 1361 — Summons to witnesses (REPEALED)
- § 1362 — Costs and fees for complainants
- § 1363 — Limitation of costs and fees in criminal cases
- § 1411 — Short title
- § 1412 — Definitions
- § 1413 — Summons to testify in another state
- § 1414 — Summons to testify in this State
- § 1415 — Exemption from arrest and service of process
- § 1461 — Definitions
- § 1462 — Summons to testify in another state
- § 1463 — Court order
- § 1464 — Terms and conditions
- § 1465 — Exceptions
- § 1466 — Summon to testify in this State
- § 1467 — Compliance
- § 1468 — Exemption from arrest and service of process
- § 1469 — Uniformity of interpretation
- § 1470 — Short title
- § 1471 — Severability clause
- § 151 — Title
- § 152 — Fresh pursuit defined
- § 153 — State defined
- § 154 — Arrest; exception
- § 155 — Hearing
- § 1701 — Effect of bail following conviction and commitment (REPEALED)
- § 1701-A — Credit for confinement prior to sentencing (REPEALED)
- § 1701-B — Post-conviction bail (REPEALED)
- § 1702 — No punishment until conviction; costs
- § 1702-A — Fingerprints required on certain sentences (REPEALED)
- § 1703 — State Prison sentence; imprisonment for misdemeanor (REPEALED)
- § 1704 — Commitment in county where convicted
- § 1705 — Expenses of prisoners from other counties
- § 1706 — Sureties to keep peace for misdemeanor
- § 1707 — Record to designated facility
- § 1708 — Error in sentence (REPEALED)
- § 1709 — Motion for new trial; newly discovered evidence (REPEALED)
- § 1710 — Transfer of persons under sentence to county jails for rehabilitative reasons (REPEALED)
- § 1741 — General penalty (REPEALED)
- § 1742 — Punishment when previous sentence to State Prison (REPEALED)
- § 1743 — Maximum and minimum terms (REPEALED)
- § 1791 — Work-jail sentences
- § 1792 — Alternative sentences to work-jails; authority of inspectors over incorrigible or dangerous convicts
- § 1793 — Sentence to any work-jail nearest county of offense; prison sentence includes labor
- § 1841 — Clerk's minutes authority to execute sentence (REPEALED)
- § 1842 — Sentence in default of payment of fine and costs (REPEALED)
- § 1843 — Removal to State Prison; clothing
- § 1901 — Respondent not to be sentenced to pay costs of court as such
- § 1902 — Fines, forfeitures and criminal costs paid to State
- § 1903 — Fines and forfeitures recovered by indictment unless otherwise provided
- § 1904 — Inability to pay fine and costs; liberation (REPEALED)
- § 1941 — Duties of clerks as to certificates of fines
- § 1942 — Duty of clerks to collect fines and costs or to issue process for collection
- § 1943 — Fines, costs and forfeitures in Superior Court
- § 1981 — Payment over of fines and costs collected
- § 1982 — Receipts for process for recovery of fines
- § 1983 — Disposal of securities for fines and costs
- § 2 — Death and injury separated by state line (REPEALED)
- § 201 — Definitions
- § 202 — Governor to deliver up person charged with crime in other state
- § 203 — Form of demand
- § 2031 — Fees claimed within 3 years
- § 2032 — Schedule of securities
- § 2033 — Treasurer's annual report to court (REPEALED)
- § 204 — Attorney General to investigate at demand of Governor
- § 205 — Extradition of prisoners or those awaiting trial or absent by compulsion
- § 206 — Extradition of those not present at time of commission of crime (REPEALED)
- § 2061 — Examination of records of clerks and treasurers by district attorney
- § 2062 — Delinquent sheriff or other officer summoned before court by district attorney
- § 207 — Governor to issue warrant and deliver to officer
- § 208 — Warrant to authorize arrest
- § 209 — Arresting officer may command assistance
- § 210 — Rights of accused person; habeas corpus
- § 210-A — Procedure at hearing
- § 210-B — Review of final judgment by Law Court
- § 211 — Disobedience of officer
- § 2111 — Appeals from the District Court
- § 2112 — Failure to prosecute appeal (REPEALED)
- § 2113 — Withdrawal of appeal; fees of jailer (REPEALED)
- § 2114 — Defendant may make election of trial
- § 2115 — Appeals from the Superior Court
- § 2115-A — Appeals by the State
- § 2115-B — Appeal by aggrieved contemnor
- § 2116 — Court action after federal court has acted
- § 2117 — Objections in criminal cases
- § 212 — Prisoner confined in jail
- § 2121 — Definitions
- § 2122 — Purpose
- § 2123 — Jurisdiction and venue
- § 2123-A — Method of review for administrative actions not included in the definition of "post-sentencing proceeding"
- § 2124 — Jurisdictional prerequisites of restraint or impediment
- § 2125 — Ground for relief
- § 2126 — Exhaustion
- § 2127 — Mootness (REPEALED)
- § 2128 — Waiver of grounds for relief
- § 2128-A — Exceptions to waiver
- § 2128-B — Time for filing
- § 2129 — Petition and procedure
- § 213 — Arrest prior to requisition
- § 2130 — Relief
- § 2131 — Review of final judgment
- § 2132 — Applicability
- § 2136 — Definitions
- § 2137 — Postjudgment of conviction motion for DNA analysis; new trial based on analysis results
- § 2138 — Motion; process
- § 214 — Arrest without warrant; hearing
- § 2141 — Appellate division of the Supreme Judicial Court for review of certain sentences (REPEALED)
- § 2142 — Procedure for appeal; hearing and determination (REPEALED)
- § 2143 — Notice of dismissal of appeal; procedure on amendment of judgment (REPEALED)
- § 2144 — Duty of clerk when appeal heard in another county (REPEALED)