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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently reversed longstanding precedent that held that experts could not render opinions about the validity of eyewitness identifications.  Now, after the courts recent 4-2 decision in Commonwealth v. Walker, that type of evidence is now admissible if the trial Judge, in her discretion, chooses to permit it.  This decision brings Pennsylvania back […]

At 10 a.m. on June 2nd, police responded to a 911 call reporting a woman staggering around and bleeding outside her house on Harvard Drive in North Wales.  SWAT teams surrounded the house and quickly entered, where a man was found dead inside the house from a gunshot wound to the chest.  Police quickly realized […]

According to Yahoo News and Reuters, the United States Department of Justice will begin collecting and analyzing data from police stops, searches, and arrests to identify and correct racial biases in the justice system. Click the link below for the full story:

http://news.yahoo.com/u-justice-department-collect-study-arrest-data-racial-160543037.html

Back in January, we featured a blog post about the Obama administration seeking low-level drug offenders who are candidates for clemency because of the old “racist” sentencing guidelines for drug offenses. The push for clemency came after the Fair Sentencing Act was enacted in 2010, which reduced the discriminatory effects of drug sentencing laws on […]

The push to legalize marijuana in New Jersey received a boost from a very unlikely group – the very prosecutors who put people behind bars for marijuana-related crimes. The New Jersey State Municipal Prosecutors Association has recently announced its support of legalization, coming just after two bills were introduced in the New Jersey State Legislature […]