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CBS News has reported that five of eight breathalyzer machines in use in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania had calibration problems. Approximately 1100 DUI cases are implicated. Thus, anyone who has been arrested for DUI in the recent past, and submitted to a breath test, should contact a DUI attorney immediately. The attorney will review the certifications such […]

In a recent Pennsylvania DUI case, Commonwealth v. Main, the Trial Court refused to apply RRRI to a one year mandatory minimum sentence, reasoning that a mandatory minimum cannot be circumvented. The Superior Court reversed the Trial Court, noting that the legislature did set certain types of offenses outside the ambit of RRRI, so it […]

Better late than never, we have added the profile of our most recent hire, Anthony M. Gallo, to our website at http://fairlielaw.net/attorney-profiles/. Tony will be handling criminal defense, personal injury, and civil litigation cases in Montgomery County, Bucks County, and the surrounding communities. He will practice law from our main office straddling Horsham and Montgomery […]

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a dying declaration of the victim of a gunshot wound, identifying the shooter, is admissible. The High Court ruled in a 6-2 decision that despite the fact that five different officers interrogated the man, his statements were not testimonial in nature and instead were elicited in an […]

An otherwise successful burglary was botched when the perpetrator felt compelled to photograph himself wearing the homeowner’s new coat, holding cash stolen from the homeowner’s son. He posted the photograph to the son’s facebook page in an apparent show of bravado that, in reality, was nothing more than pure stupidity. The homeowner turned out to […]