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The New Jersey Supreme Court recently changed the rules regarding eyewitness identification as set forth in State v. Henderson. The basis for these changes is evidence that showed eyewitness identification is the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. In New Jersey, three out of five overturned cases involve mistaken eyewitness identification. We […]

Steven Fairlie presented a seminar for lawyers today at the Montgomery Bar Association entitled “So Your Client Had A Gun? Don’t Shoot From The Hip.” The seminar deal with substantive gun crimes like Persons Not to Possess Firearms, Carrying a Firearm Without a License, Robbery, and other crimes. It also covered sentencing issues that arise […]

The National Trial Lawyers has named Montgomery County Lawyer Steven Fairlie one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers for 2011.  The National Trial Lawyers is a professional organization of America’s top trial lawyers.  Recognition by the organization is extended to those individuals who exemplify superior qualifications, trial results, and leadership and is by invitation only.  […]

Pennsylvania Senator Vincent Fumo was convicted in July of last year of 137 counts of Fraud, Tax Evasion and Obstruction of Justice. Among other things, the evidence showed that he used public employees and services for his private gain and ran the nonprofit Citizen’s Alliance for Better Neighborhoods for personal gain. The trial judge was […]

Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced today to 28 years in prison for accepting one million dollars in bribes to place children in two juvenile detention facilities built by the man who paid the Judge. Many of the children sentenced to the facilities were first time offenders and some were as young […]