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Pennsylvania Superior Court just ruled that letters written from a plaintiff’s attorney to her treating physician/expert witness are discoverable by the defense.  Such letters are protected by Pennsylvania’s “work product” doctrine, which would normally protect them from disclosure.  However, the court ruled that the defense should have a right to determine whether the plaintiff’s attorney put words in the expert’s […]

We represent Jeffrey Leinheiser, the Jenkintown teenager who was convicted of Third Degree Murder for shooting his girlfriend’s abusive father in the head while he slept in his apartment.  Jeffrey was high on Robitussin DM, which contains an active ingredient commonly referred to as DXM.  Ingesting large quantities of DXM is known as “robotripping.”   Robotripping can […]

We hear over and over that someone is guilty of a particular crime because he confessed.  But has anyone ever examined the validity of those confessions?  The New York Times just ran a provocative article examining the validity of confessions and I think the conclusions will shock many people.  I know that when confronted with […]

We just posted on this issue, but already there has been another wrongful arrest based on mistaken identity.  Paolo Londono was arrested by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office Sunday as she disembarked from a Carnival Cruise ship with her husband and 9 month old son Nicholas.  She says that someone stole her identification in March […]

While most police officers would never lie to save a case, sometimes prosecutors imply in their closing arguments that jurors would be very gullible to believe that a police officer might ever lie.   Our argument is not that police lie, it is simply that you should not blindly accept all law enforcement testimony without examining […]