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In Commonwealth v. Wolfe, 2014 PA Super. 288, the Pennsylvania Superior Court continued to deal with the consequences of Alleyne v. United States, 133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013), as it struck down the ten-year mandatory minimum pursuant  to section 9718(a)(1) for crimes against minors.  The statutory text of section 9718 is written in the same format as those […]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has announced adoption of the first new set of rules regulating court reporting and court transcripts in more than thirty years. Among the issues updated are the maximum costs for transcripts, ownership of transcripts and payment therefore (to the court rather than court reporters), waiving fees for litigants who are unable […]

Shootings in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania left six people dead this morning. The same suspect, Bradley Stone, a military veteran from Pennsburg, has been linked to the shootings which took place in Lansdale, Lower Salford, and Souderton. It was believed that the police had the suspect surrounded in a home in Souderton earlier this morning, but […]

In Commonwealth v. Garibay, 758 WDA 2012,  the Pennsylvania Superior Court, sitting en banc, held that the Commonwealth must produce, by testimony or actual documentation, statistics, data or reports to support the choice of location, timing, and duration of a vehicle-stop checkpoint in order to meet the “reasonableness” standard required for seizures under the Pennsylvania and United […]

Over the summer, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down a new decision that may yet revolutionize DUI plea negotiations.  In Bell v. Commonwealth, 2014 WL 3582707,  the Court held that multiple operating privilege suspensions of listed violations under 75 Pa.C.S. §§ 1532(a)(1) of the Vehicle Code are properly imposed following a conviction of each enumerated […]