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It has been reported that Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Mitrick became romantically involved with an alleged Jamaican drug dealer shot in the head by two other man. It is not clear if the crime was an attempted robbery of narcotics or drugs. The victim survived the attack and the two men were tried for […]

Pennsylvania Senator Stewart Greenleaf has proposed new legislation to lengthen the time for filing appeals where there is proof of actual innocence. His position is that no one can argue with giving a potentially innocent person his day in court. Numerous cases involving convictions of the innocent for heinous criminal offenses have swayed public opinion […]

Steven Fairlie represented a man charged with Murder in a Montgomery County gunpoint robbery today and the man was sentenced to 6-12 years incarceration after an open guilty plea. The last two Montgomery County Murder cases handled by Fairlie & Lippy attorneys resulted in 3 years and 15 years respectively. In a county where there […]

Conventional wisdom amongst lawyers holds that Judges can better disregard inadmissible evidence when rendering a verdict. Any time there is evidence that is not permitted to be presented to the fact finder, the Judge must make that ruling and therefore must see the evidence. Similarly, sometimes the inadmissible evidence is blurted out in court before […]

If you were ever involved in a Montgomery County criminal or personal injury case you may wish to follow this link to rate the Judge that handled the case: http://www.courthouseforum.com/venue.php?venue_id=11817 . There is also a version of the site to rate Bucks County Judges: http://www.courthouseforum.com/venue.php?venue_id=11780. In fact, you can click through the website to write […]