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An otherwise successful burglary was botched when the perpetrator felt compelled to photograph himself wearing the homeowner’s new coat, holding cash stolen from the homeowner’s son. He posted the photograph to the son’s facebook page in an apparent show of bravado that, in reality, was nothing more than pure stupidity. The homeowner turned out to […]

The Montgomery County Republican Party has just endorsed its two candidate slate for this fall’s election. Running for Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas will be Maureen C. Coggins of Upper Hanover, PA and Daniel J. Clifford of Springfield, PA. Maureen Coggins has been a trial lawyer for 18 years, and when she was Steve […]

The medical community has long accepted, and in fact testified, that the presence of certain symptoms are indicative of a baby that has been violently shaken, and that the shaking must have taken place within a short period of time just prior to the onset of the symptoms. Now doctors who have testified to that […]

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has reversed an Order of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas that rejected Robert Conway’s attempt to test evidence from his 1987 Murder Conviction for DNA. Steven Fairlie, along with Craig Cooley of the Innonence Project, represented Mr. Conway in a Petition for post-conviction DNA testing of certain evidence from […]

There has been so much demand for the affidavit of probable cause from the case of David Manilla, a Montgomery County Criminal Defense Lawyer who lives in Worcester and who allegedly shot a hunter in Richland Township near Quakertown, that we are including the text of the police affidavit of probable cause below: Commonwealth v. […]