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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 […]

Image courtesy www.patch.com   81 year-old Thomas Holliday of Lower Makefield, Bucks County was sentenced recently to 935 to 1,870 years in prison by The Honorable Albert J. Cepparulo. In January, Holliday was convicted of 234 counts related to possession of child pornography and sexually abusing a girl for four years and filming the abuse, […]

On April 28, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued its decision in Commonwealth v. Spence, 2014 WL 1669795, in which it held that cell phones are not “devices” for the purposes of the Pennsylvania wiretapping statutes, and as such, police (or anyone, for that matter) may intercept communication from a cell phone without violating the […]

In November we featured a blog article about a case in which York County Common Pleas Judge John C. Uhler found lifetime registration requirements for juvenile sex offenders pursuant to SORNA to be unconstitutional under Pennsylvania’s constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. The case is now before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and on […]