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When can you invoke the Second Amendment to restore your firearms rights?

Filed under: Criminal Law by David Keightly @ December 15, 2023

You’ve heard of “pleading the fifth,” but what about “pleading the second?” After a series of federal court decisions over the past few years interpreting the second amendment, more and more people are challenging existing gun possession laws on the basis that they go too far. Purchase Forms ATF-4473 (federal) and SP4-113 (State) If you’ve […]

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How to know when to surrender your PA driver’s license?

Filed under: Criminal Law, DUI by Steven F. Fairlie @ July 21, 2023

Many clients who suffer a driver’s license suspension ask us for advice regarding when they should surrender their license to PennDOT. Dealing with a driver’s license suspension is stressful. Besides losing the ability to drive, you need to navigate the rules of PennDOT. There is no government body more confusing than PennDOT.  It is impossible […]

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Christine Cregar Has Joined Fairlie & Lippy, P.C.

Filed under: Fairlie & Lippy News, Uncategorized by Steven F. Fairlie @ February 19, 2023

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 […]

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New Felony Clean Slate law proposed in Pennsylvania

Filed under: Criminal Law by Steven F. Fairlie @ September 11, 2022

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 […]

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Chester County Judge declares SORNA unconstitutional!

Filed under: Sex Crimes by Steven F. Fairlie @ August 27, 2022

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 […]

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