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Steve Fairlie on Nationally Syndicated Marijuana DUI Show

Filed under: Criminal Law, DUI, Fairlie & Lippy News by David Keightly @ August 19, 2024

Steven Fairlie was a guest on this morning’s nationally syndicated Price of Business Show. He and host Kevin Price spoke about the hidden pitfall of using medical marijuana in Pennsylvania. The “dirty little secret” is that if you drive with any amount of marijuana or metabolite in your system, Pennsylvania considers that a Marijuana DUI. […]

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Scam alert: Bitcoins don’t clear up bench warrants!

Filed under: Criminal Law, News by David Keightly @ August 13, 2024

PSA: If you have any bench warrants for your arrest, there are a few ways to clean it up, like: One method that will definitely not work is falling for the latest scam that asks you to put down a “bond” by paying thousands of dollars into a Bitcoin terminal. Bitcoin was established over 15 […]

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DA Pledges to Charge Drug Dealers with First-Degree Murder

Filed under: Criminal Law, Drug Crimes by David Keightly @ August 12, 2024

Last Thursday at a press conference, the District Attorney in Lycoming County announced two big arrests of drug dealers who were supplying much of north-central Pennsylvania with fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine. Like in most press conferences, he held up the mugshots of the two ringleaders and displayed an impressive assortment of drugs that they seized […]

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Superior Court Reinstates Murder Conviction in DUI Case

Filed under: Criminal Law, DUI, Uncategorized by David Keightly @ August 7, 2024

In December of 2019, while I was still a prosecutor with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, I got assigned to a horrific double-fatal DUI crash from I-95 in Bristol Township. A drunk driver, while traveling over twice the speed limit of 55 MPH, slammed into the back of a van that was carrying four […]

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Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Making Beer In Your Gut

Filed under: DUI, Strange But True by Contributor @ July 1, 2024

2024 UPDATE: Another significant instance of auto-brewery syndrome is making its rounds through the internet. According to a study released several weeks ago by the Canadian Medical Association Journal, a 50-year-old woman went to the hospital seven times over a recent two-year period because she was always tired and couldn’t stay awake. Hospital staff always […]

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