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Elizabeth Lippy just won another Not Guilty verdict in the matter of Commonwealth v. B.K. The client was charged with multiple counts of serious felonies including Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse, Aggravated Indecent Assault, Indecent Assault, Corruption of Minors, and many more. The case stemmed from accusations made by a 16 year old child that the […]

Despite the basic tenet that “red means stop,” on July 20th, Governor Tom Wolf signed into law a bill which will modify Pennsylvania’s existing Red Light statute to allow drivers to proceed through a red light that is malfunctioning, which is now defined to include a situation where sensor technology did not sense the vehicle. […]

In a recent decision that will have a major impact on DUI cases in Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case of Birchfield v. North Dakota, holding that the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless breath tests incident to arrests for drunk driving, but that it does NOT permit warrantless blood tests. Consequently, a […]

It is very rare to see charges of Drug Delivery Resulting in Death filed, but that has just happened to a Souderton area man and woman who were arrested for deaths in Trumbauersville, Bucks County. Fake percocet pills laced with acetyl fentanyl, a substance recently called out as especially dangerous by Montgomery County District Attorney […]

On June 20th, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case of Utah v. Strieff, holding 5-3 that an officer’s subsequent discovery of an outstanding warrant for a traffic violation excused his unconstitutional stop and search of the defendant and thus evidence obtained through the illegal search could be admitted against the defendant rather […]