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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently reversed longstanding precedent that held that experts could not render opinions about the validity of eyewitness identifications.  Now, after the courts recent 4-2 decision in Commonwealth v. Walker, that type of evidence is now admissible if the trial Judge, in her discretion, chooses to permit it.  This decision brings Pennsylvania back […]

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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