What you can do

Anything within reason!

1. Send money to: Trial & Error, c/o Carol Waltman,  P.O. Box 153,  Madawaska, ME 04756
   


2. Write (Click on name for email) to every public official you can, including:
   
   Bill Stokes
   Deputy Attorney General
   6 State House Station, Augusta 04333-0006
   207-626-8800  Fax: 207-287-3145.
   
   Steven Rowe
   Attorney General
   6 State House Station, Augusta 04333-0006
   207-626-8800  Fax: 207-287-3145.
   
   John Baldacci
   Governor
   1 State House Station
   Augusta, ME 04333
   207-287-3531   Fax 207-287-1034
   
   John Richardson
   Speaker of the House of Representatives
   2 State House Station
   Augusta, ME 04333-0002
   207-287-1300   Fax 207-287-1308
   
   Beth Edmonds
   President of the Senate
   3 State House Station
   Augusta, ME 04333-0003
   207-287-1500  Fax 207-287-5862
   
   Leigh Saufley
   Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine   
   P.O. Box 368
   Portland, ME 04112    
   207-287-6950 and 207-822-4286
   

If you are a resident or summer resident of Maine, write or contact your State Representative or State Senator.


3. Identify your current State Representative and State Senator and let them know of your concern about the Dennis Dechaine case.


4. Buy the Book "Human Sacrifice", by James Moore, published by Blackberry Press, Nobleboro, Maine. ($15.00


5. Buy as many additional copies of the book as possible and lend them to your friends and to anyone who might be able to help in the campaign to free Dennis Dechaine. Be prepared to resell them or give them to others.


6. Write newspapers and radio and TV stations about your belief that Dennis Dechaine is innocent and should be freed, or that a commission should be established to fully review the case. Can what happened in Illinois and most other states happen here? It did.
   


7. Send ideas to: Trial & Error, c/o Carol Waltman, P.O. Box 153 Madawaska, ME 04756
   Email: Trial and Error
   


8. Write to anyone and everyone you can think of about the case.
   


9. Talk about the case with everyone you know and offer to loan them a copy of the book, "Human Sacrifice".
   


10. Wear a Dennis Dechaine Button,  as often as you can, and explain who it is when you find friends and others looking carefully.
    


11. Put a "Free Dennis Dechaine!!" bumpersticker on your car.


12. Do you know a Maine lawyer?  Ask him or her how it could happen that an innocent man is convicted.  What is s/he doing about it? Will s/he read the book, "Human Sacrifice"?
    


13. Come to the monthly meetings of the chapter of Trial and Error which is most convenient to you.  If that is too far away, start regional meetings for your area. Email: Trial and Error for more information about setting up such meetings.
    


14. Encourage your child(ren) to read the book, "Human Sacrifice" for appropriate school work.  If you or s/he/they would like it posted on this website, please email Trial and Error
    


15. Does your local public Library have a copy of "Human Sacrifice"?  If not, please consider donating a copy or email Trial and Error and we will send a copy to you or the library.
    


16. Send a letter (or birthday card around October 29th!) to Dennis Dechaine. His address is:  807 Cushing Road,  Warren, ME 04864. All letters, cards and postcards must have the sender's name and return address on the envelope or front of card.
    


17. Contact your local community cable TV station and request that it schedule showings of the "Dennis Dechaine Videotape" (See Maine Community Television Assn. for List of Cable Stations by Town/City)