Maine Revised Statutes

Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 34-A, § 9601 (2026)

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The party states find that charges outstanding against a prisoner, detainers based on untried indictments, informations or complaints, and difficulties in securing speedy trials of persons already incarcerated in other jurisdictions, produce uncertainties which obstruct programs of prisoner treatment and rehabilitation. Accordingly, it is the policy of the party states and the purpose of this agreement to encourage the expeditious and orderly disposition of such charges and determination of the proper status of any and all detainers based on untried indictments, informations or complaints. The party states also find that proceedings with reference to such charges and detainers, when emanating from other jurisdictions, cannot properly be had in the absence of cooperative procedures. It is the further purpose of this agreement to provide such cooperative procedures. [PL 1983, c. 459, §6 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1983, c. 459, §6 (NEW).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1988–2022 · leading case: State of Maine v. Carine Reeves, 2022 ME 10 (Me. 2022).

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State of Maine v. Carine Reeves, 2022 ME 10 (Me. 2022). “[¶18] Because the Compact is intended to “encourage the expeditious and orderly disposition” of charges pending in one jurisdiction against prisoners who are incarcerated in another jurisdiction, see 34-A M.R.S. § 9601, it sets strict deadlines.”

State v. Beauchene, 541 A.2d 914 (Me. 1988). “34-A M.R.S.A. § 9601. A careful reading of the Compact does not support defendant’s assertion that it places an affirmative duty on a state to seek custody of the prisoner for expeditious transport to the charging state.”

State v. Caulk, 543 A.2d 1366 (Me. 1988). “34-A M.R.S.A. § 9601 (1988); S.Rep. No. 1356, 91st Cong.”

Wellman v. State, 588 A.2d 1178 (Me. 1991). “In 1985, pursuant to the Interstate Compact on Detainers, 34-A M.R.S.A. §§ 9601- *1179 9636 (1988), Wellman, while serving a New Hampshire prison sentence, was brought to Maine to be tried for crimes of burglary, theft and robbery, for which he had been indicted in eight…”

State v. Cookson, 657 A.2d 1154 (Me. 1995). “34-A M.R.S.A. § 9601. Once the appropriate officer of the jurisdiction in which an untried indictment is pending has obtained temporary custody of a prisoner, “trial shall be commenced within 120 days of the arrival of the prisoner in the receiving state.”

State of Maine v. Connelly (Me. Super. Ct 2000). · cites it 4× “See 34-A M.R.S.A. § 9601 et seg. Hearing on that motion was held on May 12, 2000.”

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