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On April 8, the Superior Court issued its opinion in Commonwealth v. Landis, 2014 WL 1369592, in which it granted a new trial following a DUI – Highest rate of alcohol conviction and the Juniata County trial judge’s denial of the defendant’s post-sentence motion for a new trial. The technician at the hospital to which […]

Commonwealth v. Shiem Gary: In a stunning reversal of years of Pennsylvania jurisprudence, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court today discarded the greater protections of Article I, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution and held that there is no longer any greater protection under the Pennsylvania Constitution than under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. […]

On April 22, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Navarette v. California, 2014 WL 1577513, in which it held that an anonymous 911 call reporting erratic driving, uncorroborated by a police officer viewing any erratic driving indicative of the driver being under the influence, can create reasonable suspicion that the […]

The attacker, James W. Worthington. Image courtesy patch.com   Fairlie & Lippy is representing the victim in a savage attack that occurred at the Green Parrot bar in Newtown shortly after midnight on Tuesday, March 18. The attacker knocked our client to the ground, got on top of him, and then bit his entire ear […]

Fifteen year-old Christian Aaron True Stanfield, a special-needs high school sophomore from Pittsburgh, was recently charged with a felony violation of Pennsylvania’s wiretapping statute because he made a seven-minute audio recording on his iPad of classmates who were bullying him. Stanfield let his mom hear the audio recording and then brought it to the South […]