Judge Joan H. Lefkow of the United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois – Eastern Division has ruled in United States v. Antonio Evans that a prosecution expert witness cannot testify about “granulization,” a method used to track someone via his or her cell phone location. The Honorable Joan Lefkow ruled that […]
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Vote for Fairlie & Lippy in Suburban Life Magazine
Suburban Life magazine is now accepting votes for its 2012 Awesome Attorneys award! The results will be published in the December issue, and we could use your help. If you think that there are Awesome Attorneys at Fairlie & Lippy, please vote for us in the Criminal Defense, DUI, and Personal Injury categories. Please consider […]
New Jersey Leads the Way With Eyewitness Identification Rules
In August of 2011, the New Jersey Supreme Court created significant safeguards to protect defendants in criminal trials from wrongful convictions resulting from erroneous eyewitness identification. Pennsylvania may well follow suit, though at a much slower pace. Several studies have shown that an eyewitness’s memory can be dramatically influenced by myriad factors, causing eyewitness error […]
Facebook Profile Not Protected by Fourth Amendment
A federal case in the Southern District of New York, US v. Meregildo et al. (2012), should serve as a warning that what is put on Facebook is not necessarily private. Melvin Colon, a defendant in this case, had his profile accessed by the Government through one of his Facebook ‘friends’. Colon filed a Motion […]
Doylestown Gains Notoriety for “Chalk” Caper
Doylestown is one of the latest cities in a nationwide trend of aggressive prosecution of “chalk” offenders. Police departments across the country are cracking down on some of the hardest criminals out there, operating right in broad daylight: kids with sidewalk chalk. The two Doylestown teenagers were drawing harmless pictures of a whale and sea […]
