By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 4, 2017
Trial court erred in requiring commonwealth to produce alleged victim to testify and be subject to cross-examination at a preliminary hearing, where commonwealth was permitted to establish a prima facie case solely on hearsay evidence without risk to defendant's due process rights. Order of the trial court reversed.
By Carley Meiners | The Legal Intelligencer | August 4, 2017
Unlawful contact with a minor conviction should have been graded as a default third-degree felony where jury was not charged to make a finding as to what offense defendant contacted the victim minor with the purpose of committing, thereby precluding a grading of the conviction. Order of the PCRA court affirmed in part and reversed in part.
By Matthew T. Mangino | August 3, 2017
Qu'eed Batts will soon be scheduled for his third sentencing hearing. His long and torturous journey through the criminal justice system has placed him right smack in the middle of a judicially driven realignment of juvenile punishment.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 2, 2017
A Philadelphia man claiming he was beaten by city police and subjected to a racial slur during an interrogation has lost his civil rights suit against the department.
By Max Mitchell | August 2, 2017
If last month's ruling tossing a $38 million punitive damages verdict is allowed to stand, it will create a "morass" that poses significant hurdles for bringing punitive damages claims, the plaintiffs have said in an effort to secure reconsideration from an expanded Pennsylvania Superior Court panel.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 1, 2017
Four people said they saw Vance Haskell burst into an Erie bar and gun down Darrell Cooley in 1994, but only one testified at trial. According to a federal appeals court, that witness lied on the stand, and the prosecutor who handled the case did nothing to address it.
By Lizzy McLellan | August 1, 2017
With a retrial only three months away, Cosby's lawyer is ready to move on.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 1, 2017
An indicted former Bucks County magisterial district judge and several other public officials are now facing additional charges in their federal money laundering case.
By Max Mitchell | July 28, 2017
With the state Supreme Court and at least one other Philadelphia legal institution pushing back on a proposal to fund recently-approved rate increases for the Philadelphia's court-appointed indigent defense lawyers, it appears the long-awaited raise has fallen through--at least for now.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | July 28, 2017
One of the architects of the most notorious judicial crime in Pennsylvania history, "kids-for-cash," has scored a hearing to argue for overturning some of his convictions.
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