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Superior Court Reinstates Murder Conviction in DUI Case

Filed under: Criminal Law, DUI, Uncategorized by David Keightly @ August 7, 2024

In December of 2019, while I was still a prosecutor with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, I got assigned to a horrific double-fatal DUI crash from I-95 in Bristol Township. A drunk driver, while traveling over twice the speed limit of 55 MPH, slammed into the back of a van that was carrying four […]

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Christine Cregar Has Joined Fairlie & Lippy, P.C.

Filed under: Fairlie & Lippy News, Uncategorized by Steven F. Fairlie @ February 19, 2023

We are happy to announce that we have hired Christine Cregar as Senior Associate handling all Pennsylvania Criminal Defense Matters. Christine brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience, bragging rights as Bucks County’s “Star Attorney of the Year” in 2019. She brings a down to earth approach that puts the client’s side of […]

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Cops smell weed – can you be arrested?

Filed under: Uncategorized by Steven F. Fairlie @ December 30, 2021

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just addressed, though not necessarily answered, the long-standing question of whether police may search or arrest based upon the mere odor of marihuana. The Court held that the odor of marihuana alone is no longer sufficient to create probable cause to arrest now that marihuana is legal in many forms […]

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Elizabeth Lippy published in Bloomberg Law

Filed under: Uncategorized by Steven F. Fairlie @ April 2, 2020

SCI Phoenix Montgomery County inmate tests Covid 19 positive

Filed under: Uncategorized by Steven F. Fairlie @ March 29, 2020

The first state prison inmate in Pennsylvania has tested positive for Covid 19. He’s located at SCI Phoenix in Montgomery County, the same prison where Bill Cosby is being held. Reports are that he has been quarantined along with all inmates who came into contact with him, but it seems like it won’t be long […]

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