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The PA Superior Court recently held that masking and social distancing of prospective jurors during the jury selection process does not interfere with the sole purpose of voir dire: The empaneling of a competent, fair, impartial, and unprejudiced jury capable of...
The PA Superior Court has recently ruled that a driver’s nervous behavior alone does not provide a sufficient basis to warrant police to ask him to step out of the vehicle for an investigatory detention. Andrew Jordan Mattis was convicted for possession of marijuana...
Today, the PA Commonwealth Court reversed the trial court’s decision to deny licensee’s appeal of a refusal-based license suspension adding that under the circumstances, the licensee “should have been given another opportunity to complete the test.” In the case at...
Your Miranda Rights are a fundamental part of any arrest and can have a drastic impact on the legal proceedings that stem from that arrest. These rights apply to everyone arrested by the police, and the police generally need to inform you of them at that time. If they...
Tillery and a passenger were stopped by police because Tillery “pulled [his] car into the parking spot right in front of Cousin’s Supermarket without using a turn signal.” During the traffic stop, Tillery was asked to get out of the car. He ultimately complied and the...
The laws on cocaine across the country differ significantly. While the possession and sale of cocaine is illegal in every state, state laws govern the severity of the penalties that offenders face, so it can be quite confusing to understand how the law applies to each...
In Pennsylvania, it is illegal for a person to possess certain drugs. That person is likely to be arrested, charged and sentenced if the prosecutor can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they knew they were in possession of illegal drugs. However, there are defenses...
The PA Supreme Court recently reversed the PA Superior Court’s decision regarding the sufficiency of evidence required to prove the offense of Drug Delivery Resulting in Death (“DDRD”). Specifically, the Supreme Court held that the Commonwealth failed to prove that...
Today, the PA Supreme Court held that in order to conduct a warrantless search of an automobile in PA, police need both probable cause and exigent circumstances, expressly overruling the Court’s prior decision in Commonwealth v. Gary, 91 A.3d 102 (Pa. 2014) which...
Often, there is more than one story when someone in Lancaster has been arrested for assault. It's not always clear who started the fight. The person the police arrested may actually have been the victim, not the aggressor. If you are the one charged with assault, the...
