Shylock, Cordelia, and the Maine District Court

  • Sheldon, John C.
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Publication date
February 2018
Publisher
University of Maine School of Law Digital Commons

Abstract

In Maine there are two different state trial courts. The superior court is the jury trial forum, to which most people refer valuable civil and weighty criminal issues. The district court, on the other hand, is the “peoples\u27 court,” where judges decide cases without juries in order to provide litigants with a fast track to the resolution of their simpler (or, at least, less consequential) civil and criminal cases. Maine District Court judges rarely grapple with grand constitutional issues like abortion or free speech, they hardly ever encounter flashy murder cases, and they never participate in headline products liability trials. Instead, they spend most of their time hearing misdemeanors, juvenile offenses, traffic violations, domestic v...

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