PARIS, Maine — A local man charged with setting fire to a Norway home last December while the occupants were asleep upstairs will be tried this month in Oxford County Superior Court.
Andrew J. Freeman of 32 High St., Apt. 2, faces two charges of aggravated attempted murder, and arson and burglary.
On Dec. 5, Edgar McCloud and his wife woke up to find two fires set at their home on Round-The-Pond Road. They quickly extinguished the flames. The McClouds granddaughter, who police say Freeman knew, was sleeping in the house as well.
Police believe Freeman broke into the home, started the fires and left.
Freeman was charged Dec. 30 after an investigation by State Fire Marshal’s Office investigator Daniel Young. Freeman was already in custody at the time on charges of violating a protective order and violation of conditions of release.
Freeman is being represented by attorney Sarah Glynn. The trial is set to begin Sept. 24.
Andrew you are innocent until proven guilty. If you are found guilty,I hope you get the maximum sentence. From the sound of it you tried to kill these people by burning them alive. You also put the firefighters lives at stake because they work hard to make sure no one is in the building while putting the fire out. To the Judge… GIVE HIM THE MAX!
The only people who receive maximum sentences in this state are uncooperative drug traffickers. A vast majority of violent offenders receive lenient sentences with probation, and are released early on good behavior or trusty. A person who is caught possessing three Suboxone would very likely be sentenced to more than three years, while someone who nearly beats a man to death with a flashlight, during a home invasion, no less, gets out in 18 months. That is not justice; their system is broken.
Agreed!
Because every Judge in Maine knows that all Class D and E crimes in the State of Maine that are not represented by an Attorney are automatically set up to deprive a defendant of 3 Constitutional Rights. Read Rule 16-Discovery By The Defendant. (Not 16-A) http://tinyurl.com/9mwxnzh“Discovery” as guaranteed by State Rules are never delivered iaw the Rule. Discovery is a defendant’s property to dispose of if he wishes and is deprived without due process of Law.
This is “a” reason for judicial leniency.
However! Mr. Freeman’s alleged crime is not a Class D or E. It’s a little more heinous than that. There very well could be a wood shop course in his future.
An invertebrate judge will send him to Riverview for analysis, where there will be no room for him. He will then be turned over to his parents on the condition that he not play with lighters.