Maine 131st Legislature (2023-2024) Status: In Committee Bipartisan · 5 D · 4 R cosponsors

LD 1782 — An Act To Empower Jurors By Allowing Instructions That They May Find A Defendant Not Guilty If A Guilty Verdict Would Yield An Unjust Result

Last action — Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed House
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 131st Legislature (2023-2024). It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there are no live odds of enactment. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

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Action History

  1. Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 384 Yeas 30 - Nays 3 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 PREVAILED

  3. On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence

  4. Reports READ

  5. Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  6. (Yeas 99 - Nays 44 - Absent 7 - Excused 1)

  7. ROLL CALL NO. 251

  8. Subsequently, on motion of Representative MOONEN of Portland, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED.

  9. Speaker laid before the House

  10. Reported Out - ONTP/OTP

  11. Later today assigned.

  12. On motion of Representative MOONEN of Portland, TABLED pending ACCEPTANCE of Either Report.

  13. Reports READ.

  14. Voted - Divided Report

  15. Work Session Held

  16. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on JUDICIARY in concurrence

  17. Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  18. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on JUDICIARY.

  19. Committee on Judiciary suggested and ordered printed.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 9 co-sponsors · 176 not signed on · 30 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (9)

Not signed on (176)

176 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

ACCEPT MAJORITY OUGHT NOT TO PASS REPORT

Passed 30 Yea · 3 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat 17001
Independent 1000
Republican 9000
Unaffiliated 3301
Total 30302
% of votes cast 86%9%0%6%
How each member voted (35)
Member Party Vote
BRAKEY of Androscoggin — Nay
CHIPMAN of Cumberland — Nay
KEIM of Oxford — Not Voting
LAFOUNTAIN of Kennebec — Yea
LYFORD of Eddington — Nay
POULIOT of Kennebec — Yea
VITELLI of Sagadahoc — Yea
 Henry L. Ingwersen Democrat Yea
Anne M. Carney Democrat Yea
Cameron D. Reny Democrat Yea
Craig V. Hickman Democrat Yea
Donna Bailey Democrat Yea
Glenn "Chip" Curry Democrat Yea
Jill C. Duson Democrat Yea
Joseph E. Rafferty Democrat Yea
Joseph M. Baldacci Democrat Yea
Margaret "Peggy" R. Rotundo Democrat Yea
Mark W. Lawrence Democrat Not Voting
Matthea E.L. Daughtry Democrat Yea
Michael Tipping Democrat Yea
Nicole C. Grohoski Democrat Yea
Pinny H. Beebe-Center Democrat Yea
Stacy F. Brenner Democrat Yea
Teresa S. Pierce Democrat Yea
Timothy E. Nangle Democrat Yea
Richard A. Bennett Independent Yea
Bradlee T. Farrin Republican Yea
Caldwell Jackson Republican Yea
Harold "Trey" L. Stewart, III Republican Yea
James D. Libby Republican Yea
Jeffrey L. Timberlake Republican Yea
Marianne Moore Republican Yea
Matthew A. Harrington Republican Yea
Russell J. Black Republican Yea
Stacey K. Guerin Republican Yea

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ACC MAJ OUGHT NOT TO PASS REP

Passed 99 Yea · 44 Nay · 8 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat 50103
Republican 213401
Unaffiliated 27903
Unenrolled 0001
Independent 1000
Total 994408
% of votes cast 66%29%0%5%
How each member voted (151)
Member Party Vote
ANDREWS of Paris — Nay
BOYLE of Gorham — Yea
CARMICHAEL of Greenbush — Yea
CLOUTIER of Lewiston — Yea
COLLINGS of Portland — Yea
COSTAIN of Plymouth — Yea
CRAVEN of Lewiston — Yea
DAVIS of East Machias — Nay
DUNPHY of Embden — Nay
FAY of Raymond — Not Voting
GALLETTA of Durham — Nay
HOBBS of Wells — Yea
JAUCH of Topsham — Yea
JAVNER of Chester — Yea
LANDRY of Farmington — Not Voting
LaROCHELLE of Augusta — Yea
MADIGAN of Waterville — Yea
MILLETT of Waterford — Nay
MILLETT of Waterford — Not Voting
MORIARTY of Cumberland — Yea
NESS of Fryeburg — Nay
NEWMAN of Belgrade — Nay
O'CONNELL of Brewer — Yea
O'NEIL of Saco — Yea
PAULHUS of Bath — Yea
PERRY of Calais — Yea
PERRY of Bangor — Yea
POLEWARCZYK of Wiscasset — Nay
PRINGLE of Windham — Yea
RECKITT of South Portland — Yea
RISEMAN of Harrison — Nay
RUSSELL of Verona Island — Yea
SAMPSON of Alfred — Yea
SHAW of Auburn — Yea
SHEEHAN of Biddeford — Yea
WHITE of Waterville — Yea
WILLIAMS of Bar Harbor — Yea
WORTH of Ellsworth — Yea
ZEIGLER of Montville — Yea
Adam Lee Democrat Yea
Allison Hepler Democrat Yea
Ambureen Rana Democrat Yea
Amy Kuhn Democrat Yea
Amy Roeder Democrat Yea
Ann Matlack Democrat Yea
Anne Graham Democrat Yea
Anne-Marie Mastraccio Democrat Yea
Arthur Bell Democrat Yea
Charles Skold Democrat Yea
Cheryl Golek Democrat Yea
Christopher Kessler Democrat Yea
Daniel Ankeles Democrat Yea
Daniel Sayre Democrat Yea
Daniel Shagoury Democrat Yea
Deqa Dhalac Democrat Yea
Drew Gattine Democrat Yea
Grayson Lookner Democrat Yea
Holly Eaton Democrat Yea
Holly Sargent Democrat Yea
Holly Stover Democrat Yea
James Dill Democrat Yea
Janice Dodge Democrat Yea
Karen Montell Democrat Not Voting
Kelly Murphy Democrat Yea
Kristi Mathieson Democrat Yea
Laura Supica Democrat Yea
Laurie Osher Democrat Yea
Lori Gramlich Democrat Yea
Lydia Crafts Democrat Yea
Lynn Copeland Democrat Yea
Mana Abdi Democrat Yea
Marc Malon Democrat Yea
Matt Moonen Democrat Yea
Melanie Sachs Democrat Yea
Michael Brennan Democrat Yea
Michel Lajoie Democrat Not Voting
Michele Meyer Democrat Yea
Morgan Rielly Democrat Yea
Nina Milliken Democrat Yea
Parnell Terry Democrat Yea
Poppy Arford Democrat Yea
Rachel Talbot Ross Democrat Yea
Sally Cluchey Democrat Yea
Samuel Zager Democrat Yea
Sophia Warren Democrat Nay
Suzanne Salisbury Democrat Yea
Tavis Hasenfus Democrat Yea
Tiffany Roberts Democrat Not Voting
Traci Gere Democrat Yea
Valli Geiger Democrat Yea
Victoria Doudera Democrat Yea
Walter Runte Democrat Yea
William Bridgeo Democrat Yea
William Pluecker Independent Yea
Abden Simmons Republican Nay
Abigail Griffin Republican Nay
Amanda Collamore Republican Yea
Amy Arata Republican Yea
Ann Fredericks Republican Nay
Barbara Bagshaw Republican Nay
Benjamin Hymes Republican Nay
Billy Bob Faulkingham Republican Nay
Caldwell Jackson Republican Yea
Chad Perkins Republican Yea
David Boyer Republican Nay
David G. Haggan Republican Yea
David Woodsome Republican Nay
Dean Cray Republican Yea
Donald Ardell Republican Nay
Gary Drinkwater Republican Yea
Gregory Swallow Republican Yea
Irene Gifford Republican Nay
James Thorne Republican Nay
James White Republican Nay
Jeffrey Adams Republican Yea
Jennifer Poirier Republican Yea
John Ducharme Republican Nay
Joseph Underwood Republican Nay
Joshua Morris Republican Nay
Katrina Smith Republican Nay
Kimberly Pomerleau Republican Nay
Laurel Libby Republican Nay
Lucas Lanigan Republican Not Voting
Mark Babin Republican Yea
Mark Blier Republican Nay
Mark Walker Republican Nay
Michael Lemelin Republican Yea
Michael Soboleski Republican Nay
Nancy Theriault Republican Nay
Nathan Carlow Republican Nay
Rachel Henderson Republican Nay
Randall Greenwood Republican Nay
Randall Hall Republican Yea
Reagan Paul Republican Nay
Richard Campbell Republican Nay
Richard Mason Republican Yea
Richard T. Bradstreet Republican Yea
Robert Nutting Republican Yea
Roger Albert Republican Nay
Scott W. Cyrway Republican Yea
Sheila Lyman Republican Yea
Shelley Rudnicki Republican Nay
Stephen Wood Republican Nay
Steven Foster Republican Yea
Tammy Schmersal-Burgess Republican Nay
Thomas Lavigne Republican Yea
Tiffany Strout Republican Nay
Timothy Guerrette Republican Nay
Tracy Quint Republican Nay
Wayne Parry Republican Yea
W. Crockett Unenrolled Not Voting

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors LD 1782?
LD 1782 is sponsored by Nancy Theriault (Republican), James White (Republican), Sophia Warren (Democrat), Amy Roeder (Democrat), Walter RISEMAN, Nina Milliken (Democrat), Craig V. Hickman (Democrat), Nicole C. Grohoski (Democrat), Billy Bob Faulkingham (Republican), and David Boyer (Republican).
What is the current status of LD 1782?
This bill died with 131st Legislature (2023-2024). It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track LD 1782?
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