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Have you been convicted of a crime in Pennsylvania? There are complicated rules that apply to minor misdemeanors and summary offenses, those who have completed an ARD program, and those who won their cases at trial or had the charges dismissed – which permit expungement (erasure) of criminal records. But if you were convicted of […]

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I’ve heard enough spin on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s reversal of the Cosby conviction today to justify an article that spells out what really happened. The case was hotly contested by both sides. But there is no way that a jury was going to ignore a parade of women saying that they were sexually assaulted. […]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court gave strong teeth to Rule 600 in a case decided two days ago (Commonwealth v. Harth). Rule 600 gives the Commonwealth 365 days to bring a case to trial, subtracting delays caused outside the control and due diligence of prosecutors. While the rule seems clear cut enough, the exceptions had swallowed […]

SCOTUS has decided that the Fourth Amendment does not permit a blanket rule that police may always pursue a misdemeanor suspect into his home if he flees there. Instead, in Lange v. California, the Court held that police need to weigh all of the circumstances and be able to articulate an exigency that must be […]