Long-jailed Defendant Freed On Bail After York County Da’s Office Is Kicked Off Case

The defendant in a contentious domestic violence case has been released from jail on $1,000 bail after a judge disqualified the entire York County District Attorney’s Office from prosecuting the case and Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson had to take over. Paul Olsen, 34, of Eliot, had been held for 32 months at the York County Jail in Alfred in lieu of $100,000 bail until Justice Nancy Mills cleared the way for his release Wednesday after a bail hearing in the Cumberland County Courthouse in Portland. Anderson is now reviewing the case to determine whether it has become too tainted to take to trial. Mills disqualified the York County prosecutors after finding Assistant District Attorney Thomas Miscio had knowingly received confidential documents written by Olsen’s attorney that contained the defense’s trial plans.