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On February 19th, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania decided the case of Commonwealth v. Schley, No.124 WDA 2015, holding that Pennsylvania’s Rape Shield Law does not bar the admission of prior false sexual assault allegations made by the complainant as evidence in a trial for Endangering the Welfare of Children. The defendant, Schley, and […]

In Commonwealth v. Sodomsky, 2015 Pa. Super. 133, a three-judge panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court held that digital information stored on a desktop computer is subject to Fourth Amendment protections, regardless of the defendant’s reasonable expectation of privacy. The defendant had dropped off his desktop computer to Circuit City’s technology department in order for a new […]

On July 1st, 2015, the Protection From Sexual Violence & Intimidation Act (PSVI) (read the whole act here)  will go into effect.  It provides a civil remedy that a perpetrator of sexual violence have no contact with the victim whether or not the victim seeks criminal prosecution.  In many ways, the PSVI Act is a […]

In the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas on Tuesday, Iris Gibney, 42, pled guilty to having sex with a minor.  Police had witnessed Gibney naked in a Pottstown-area park with a 17 year-old boy.   By pleading guilty, Gibney, who works at the Victoria’s Secret at the King of Prussia Mall, admitted to the facts […]

In a per curiam decision, Grady v. North Carolina, the United States Supreme Court on Monday granted the petitioner’s writ of certiorari and immediately vacated the judgment of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.  This decision allows two-time sex offender Torrey Dale Grady to challenge a tracking device that he was ordered by a state trial […]