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President Obama yesterday commuted the sentences of 111 inmates. This means he is letting convicted criminals out of jail early – before they have served the sentences handed down by the Judges who presided over their cases. Reporters are falling over themselves to label the entire group “nonviolent offenders.” In fact, President Obama has now […]

Elizabeth Lippy just won another Not Guilty verdict in the matter of Commonwealth v. B.K. The client was charged with multiple counts of serious felonies including Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse, Aggravated Indecent Assault, Indecent Assault, Corruption of Minors, and many more. The case stemmed from accusations made by a 16 year old child that the […]

Despite the basic tenet that “red means stop,” on July 20th, Governor Tom Wolf signed into law a bill which will modify Pennsylvania’s existing Red Light statute to allow drivers to proceed through a red light that is malfunctioning, which is now defined to include a situation where sensor technology did not sense the vehicle. […]

A new report on drunk driving laws in the United States found that Pennsylvania has some of the most lenient DUI laws and enforcement in the country. The report, which was conducted by the personal finance website WalletHub, analyzed enforcement rules in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 15 different metrics, such […]

  Police departments across the country utilize field test kits in order to determine whether a particular substance they find in the possession of a suspect is indeed a controlled substance. However, it is becoming clear as time goes on that these kits, which often cost around $2 and have changed very little since the […]