Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State address, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Mills also wrote that retail theft is "a serious problem in Maine" and that the proposal to alter the three strikes rule could possibly make it worse. Preventing prosecutors from being able to charge a third theft as a felony "will take away an important tool to hold people accountable," wrote Mills, a former state attorney general.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine was among the supporters of the proposal. Michael Kebede, a policy counsel with the group, testified that it "would ensure that our criminal codes are more proportionate to the conduct they seek to punish."
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