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We are happy to announce that we have hired Christine Cregar as Senior Associate handling all Pennsylvania Criminal Defense Matters. Christine brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience, bragging rights as Bucks County’s “Star Attorney of the Year” in 2019. She brings a down to earth approach that puts the client’s side of […]

A brand new proposal in Pennsylvania would make it easy for most people convicted of felony drug charges to have their records erased. House Bill 1826, sponsored by State Representatives Jordan Harris (D-Philadelphia) and Sheryl Delozier (R-Cumberland), would expand a 2018 law that provides for lower level misdemeanor charges to be sealed if the person […]

A Chester County Judge has determined that SORNA is unconstitutional on many grounds in a blockbuster opinion! In Commonwealth v. George Torsilieri the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had remanded the case back to the Chester County Court for a determination of how five factors from Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez applied to SORNA. The Court struck down the […]

Pennsylvania’s Governor Wolf just signed a series of harsher DUI laws known as “Deana’s Law.” Deana Eckman was a young woman killed by a 6 time convicted drunk driver, David Strowhouer, who crossed into oncoming traffic while passing another car and hit Deana’s car head-on, killing her. Had Strowhouer received consecutive prison time for his […]

Today the United States Supreme Court ruled that New York state may not require its citizens to show just cause in order to obtain a permit to carry a firearm. Such a law is often referred to as a “may issue” law, meaning that the state may issue the permit upon a showing of just […]