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At 10 a.m. on June 2nd, police responded to a 911 call reporting a woman staggering around and bleeding outside her house on Harvard Drive in North Wales.  SWAT teams surrounded the house and quickly entered, where a man was found dead inside the house from a gunshot wound to the chest.  Police quickly realized […]

Fairlie & Lippy, a small Montgomery County Criminal Defense and Personal Injury firm is pleased to announce that three of the firm’s lawyers have been named to Philadelphia Magazine’s “SuperLawyers” lists this year. Steven Fairlie has been named again to both the Top 100 lawyers in Philadelphia and the Top 100 lawyers in Pennsylvania. Elizabeth […]

Commonwealth v. Shiem Gary: In a stunning reversal of years of Pennsylvania jurisprudence, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court today discarded the greater protections of Article I, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution and held that there is no longer any greater protection under the Pennsylvania Constitution than under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. […]

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In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration is actively encouraging defense attorneys and prison officials to recommend inmates who are serving sentences for “low-level” drug offenses for clemency. Clemency is the act of pardoning a convicted criminal so that legally the crime was never committed. It can also include simply reducing the sentence that the […]