The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ordered an interim suspension

By an Information of February 16, 2018, pursuant to M. Bar R. 23 the Board of Overseers of the Bar’s Bar Counsel has requested the interim suspension of former (now administratively suspended) attorney Matthew J. Miller. Mr. Miller was provided an opportunity to respond to the Board’s filing and the Court has considered the record as thus far submitted by the parties.

As a result, based upon his plea of guilty and resulting federal conviction and judgment imposed upon him on December 19, 2017 for the serious crime of Accessing with Intent to View Child Pornography, an Order of Interim Suspension from the practice of law in Maine is now imposed upon Matthew J. Miller, effective immediately.

The conviction was described by the Maine Office of the United States Attorney

According to court records, in September 2016, investigators from Homeland Security Investigations and the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit were investigating the exchange of child pornography over the internet. As part of the investigation, agents downloaded child pornography files from a computer that was making the files available. The computer was later determined to be at Miller’s residence in Windham. Investigators executed a search warrant at the residence, and found that Miller had been searching for and downloading child pornography to his computer using a peer-to-peer file-sharing network.