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Last Thursday, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman announced that a multimillion drug trafficking ring had been taken down. “Operation: Weed Whacker” began after a phone call from a concerned citizen last September. The operation tracked 3,673 lbs. of marijuana that was shipped from California to southeast Pennsylvania and multiple people were arrested. Three […]

Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor who was accused of performing thousands of illegal abortions and operating a “pill mill”, was found guilty last Monday and was sentenced on Tuesday. Gosnell was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder for aborting babies who were born alive, one count of involuntary manslaughter for the overdose […]

According to the CDC, drugs other than alcohol are involved in approximately 18% of all fatal vehicle crashes each year. Despite this, there is still no portable test available to police to detect drugs in a person’s system. Recently, Swedish researchers developed a breath test that they say can detect 12 different drugs, including methamphetamine, […]

Last month, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania decided Commonwealth v. Harrell, a case regarding an expert witness testifying about coerced confessions. In a 2-1 decision, the Superior Court found that the defense is not entitled to calling an expert to testify about a false confession. In 2008, Michael Harrell confessed to police to killing two […]

On April 30, George Zimmerman waived his right to a pretrial “stand your ground” hearing. Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012 and claims that it was done in self-defense. This case has been in the national spotlight for months, and Zimmerman waived this hearing as a tactical decision in order to have his […]