Happy New Year. I was just reading Kiplinger’s money magazine about car insurance rates. There is good news and bad news about it. The bad news is car insurance rates are heading higher. The good news at least in the personal-injury field is that jury awards are not the culprit. There seems to be a …
DUI offenders: New law in Pennsylvania and ignition interlock devices. There were 10,256 alcohol related crashes in Pennsylvania according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation last year. Everyone agrees that is way too many accidents related to alcohol abuse. The question then becomes how do you try to make the roads safer for drivers? In …
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Okay legal eagles let’s see if you get this one right from last week’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision. A guy drinks himself into unconsciousness and is found by the police behind the wheel passed out. The police want to draw blood from him to determine his level of alcohol. Time is of the essence since …
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Breaking news!! Federal Appeals Court rules that citizens have a right to film police activity without fear of retaliation The jurisdiction of 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals includes Pittsburgh and all of Pennsylvania. Well 2 days ago on July 7, 2017 the Court ruled that a citizen’s First Amendment rights guarantee that they can take photographs …
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Harder line on DUIs In Pa. Is Coming Whether drunk drivers like it or not, harder penalties are going into effect this August in Pennsylvania. Ignition interlock devices that actually work are the way to combat drunk driving on the highways. But the key to it is that the ignition interlock must actually work. What do …
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday made a game changing decision in the field of juvenile law. Basically what they said is that life without parole for juvenile offenders is dead in Pennsylvania. If you read the summary from the Pittsburgh Tribune review below it says juveniles are too young and immature to be locked …
The Beaver County DUI Task Force will conduct sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols in Beaver County over the Fourth of July weekend and through the summer, the Hopewell Township Police Department announced Tuesday. The checkpoints will be operated at undisclosed locations throughout the county, officials said. In a press release, the police department said drivers …
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The jury in the Bill Cosby case has been trying to reach a decision on the criminal charges against him for 3 days now. Yesterday I was interviewed by the Associated Press about the possibility of a deadlocked verdict. Still not sure how I was called by the Associated Press but here is what I said: Q: …
Many clients I represent in criminal cases often have a suspicion about the whole criminal justice system. One of the myths that I have heard often from people charged with criminal offenses is this: the system is out to get me, the cop and Judge want to put me in jail, and even if they …
Is a pencil a weapon under the law? That is the question that a Commonwealth Court had to decide recently in a school law case. The law says that a student shall not possess handle or transmit a weapon while on any school property. A weapon shall include a knife, cutting instrument, or any other …