Steven Fairlie represented a man charged with Murder in a Montgomery County gunpoint robbery today and the man was sentenced to 6-12 years incarceration after an open guilty plea. The last two Montgomery County Murder cases handled by Fairlie & Lippy attorneys resulted in 3 years and 15 years respectively. In a county where there […]
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Who does a better job of ignoring inadmissible evidence – Judge or jury?
Conventional wisdom amongst lawyers holds that Judges can better disregard inadmissible evidence when rendering a verdict. Any time there is evidence that is not permitted to be presented to the fact finder, the Judge must make that ruling and therefore must see the evidence. Similarly, sometimes the inadmissible evidence is blurted out in court before […]
Rate Montgomery County Judges and Bucks County Judges online
If you were ever involved in a Montgomery County criminal or personal injury case you may wish to follow this link to rate the Judge that handled the case: http://www.courthouseforum.com/venue.php?venue_id=11817 . There is also a version of the site to rate Bucks County Judges: http://www.courthouseforum.com/venue.php?venue_id=11780. In fact, you can click through the website to write […]
RRRI MUST BE APPLIED TO STATE DUI SENTENCE WHERE APPLICABLE
In a recent Pennsylvania DUI case, Commonwealth v. Main, the Trial Court refused to apply RRRI to a one year mandatory minimum sentence, reasoning that a mandatory minimum cannot be circumvented. The Superior Court reversed the Trial Court, noting that the legislature did set certain types of offenses outside the ambit of RRRI, so it […]
DYING DECLARATION ADMISSIBLE
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a dying declaration of the victim of a gunshot wound, identifying the shooter, is admissible. The High Court ruled in a 6-2 decision that despite the fact that five different officers interrogated the man, his statements were not testimonial in nature and instead were elicited in an […]
