Many people are familiar with the concept of self defense, but Pennsylvania defense law also permits the use of deadly force in defense of others. In this case, just this past Monday, an Abington man woke up to his mother’s screams for help. She had just returned home from a trip to a casino and […]
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Steve Fairlie on Nationally Syndicated Marijuana DUI Show
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. […]
Scam alert: Bitcoins don’t clear up bench warrants!
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 […]
DA Pledges to Charge Drug Dealers with First-Degree Murder
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 […]
Superior Court Reinstates Murder Conviction in DUI Case
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 […]
