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A Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling has invalidated the practice of Pennsylvania counties regulating where sex offenders can live. The impact for Montgomery County will be limited to Horsham, Hatboro, Abington, and Trappe. In Bucks County the impact will be far more widespread, as many more municipalities had passed ordinances restricting where convicted sex offenders may […]

Steven Fairlie, of the Montgomery County law firm Fairlie & Lippy, P.C., has been named a 2011 Pennsylvania SuperLawyer for Personal Injury. He has previously been named a Pennsylvania SuperLawyer for Criminal Defense, and regularly practices in both fields. Elizabeth Lippy has been named a 2011 SuperLawyers Rising Star in a Criminal Defense, an award […]

It has been reported that Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Mitrick became romantically involved with an alleged Jamaican drug dealer shot in the head by two other man. It is not clear if the crime was an attempted robbery of narcotics or drugs. The victim survived the attack and the two men were tried for […]

Pennsylvania Senator Stewart Greenleaf has proposed new legislation to lengthen the time for filing appeals where there is proof of actual innocence. His position is that no one can argue with giving a potentially innocent person his day in court. Numerous cases involving convictions of the innocent for heinous criminal offenses have swayed public opinion […]

Steven Fairlie represented a man charged with Murder in a Montgomery County gunpoint robbery today and the man was sentenced to 6-12 years incarceration after an open guilty plea. The last two Montgomery County Murder cases handled by Fairlie & Lippy attorneys resulted in 3 years and 15 years respectively. In a county where there […]