Criminal defense attorney with 34 years of law practice experience. Criminal defense, OUI/DUI defense, juvenile defense in greater Portland, Maine, including Portland, S.Portland, Gorham, Westbrook, Scarborough, Biddeford, Saco, Old Orchard Beach and Cumberland and York Counties generally.
Since 1984
2012 - Current
Edmund R. Folsom, Attorney At Law
Criminal Defense, OUI/DUI, juvenile defense practice focused on representing people charged with crimes in York and Cumberland Counties.
2014 - 2016
University of Maine School of Law
Adjunct law professor teaching Criminal Procedure: Investigations to second and third year law students.
1999 - 2012
The Boulos Law Firm
Defended hundreds of people charged with OUI, in court and before the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and hundreds of others facing charges including assault, domestic violence assault, operating after suspension, operating after revocation, theft, embezzlement, aggravated assault, gross sexual assault, manslaughter, attempted murder, and murder (infanticide), in this exclusively criminal defense practice in Saco, Maine.
1995 - 1999
Edmund R. Folsom, Attorney At Law
Primarily a criminal defense practice, located in Portland, Maine, defending those charged with crimes in both state and federal court. Defended people on charges of assault, theft, driving offenses, drug possession, robbery, burglary, drug trafficking, possession of a firearm by a felon, arson, aggravated assault, gross sexual assault, and murder. Tried one murder case twice within a 2-month period, securing dismissal after two hung hung juries- client was freed, case was never retried.
1992 - 1994
Cumberland County D.A.'s Office
Deputy District Attorney assisting the District Attorney with personnel, media relations, office policy and other management issues while personally prosecuting 150- 175 felony and roughly 500 misdemeanors per year in Cumberland County Superior Court.
1987 - 1992
Cumberland County D.A.'s Office
Assistant district attorney, prosecuting crimes primarily in Cumberland County Superior Court, but also in Portland District Court, at times trying 5 or more jury trials per month. Cases ranged from disorderly conduct to burglaries and thefts, gross sexual assault, vehicular manslaughter and attempted murder.
1984 - 1987
Jolovitz & Niehoff
Associate attorney in three-person general law practice, in Waterville, Maine, handling primarily real estate, collections and criminal defense cases.
1982 - 1984
J.D. | Law
1981 - 1982
Law
1974 - 1979
B.A. | Psychology
National Trial Lawyers
National Trial Lawyers Association
Martindale Hubbell
National Trial Lawyers Association
National Trial Lawyers Association
National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys
National Trial Lawyers Association
National Trial Lawyers Association
Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
National Trial Lawyers Association
Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
Domestic Violence Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence Restraining Orders
