Gun charges can carry serious penalties that may permanently affect your life. Whether you’re facing charges for illegal possession, unlawful discharge, or carrying without a permit, navigating the legal system without an experienced attorney can be overwhelming and...
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When facing criminal charges, it can feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. Every decision you make during this stressful time can have far-reaching consequences for your future. In these moments, having an experienced and trustworthy legal team by...
DUI on Labor Day Weekend: Understand Risks and Your Legal Rights
DUI on Labor Day Weekend: Understand Risks and Your Legal Rights Last Labor Day weekend in Pennsylvania brought stark reminders of the dangers of impaired driving, with 1,189 reported crashes leading to 20 fatalities and 892 injuries. Of these incidents, 133 were...
Accomplice Liability for Victims of Abuse
When Domestic Violence Victims Are Prosecuted as Accomplices Pennsylvania and all other states have laws that allow individuals to be held legally accountable for crimes committed by others. If a group of individuals rob a bank and one of them shoots and kills a...
SCOTUS Enhanced Sentencing Decisions Are Up To Juries
SCOTUS Rules That Juries Are to Decide on Matter of Enhanced Sentencing The Supreme Court of the United States has officially ruled to put certain limitations on the way it is determined that defendants in criminal cases meet the Armed Career Criminal Act's...
The Ways That You Can Challenge Breath Test Results
Challenging the Results of a DUI Breath Test Breath test results are usually the most important pieces of evidence in drunk driving cases. When the results of a breath test reveal that a motorist charged with driving under the influence was operating their vehicle...
How Eyewitness Testimony Is Often Flawed
Eyewitness Testimony's Large Margin of Error Testimony provided by credible eyewitnesses plays a major role in the criminal justice system. These accounts are commonly used to paint a complete and accurate picture of the crime, and they have been known to make or...
The Potential Consequences of Speeding Tickets
Should Drivers Contest Speeding Tickets? Pennsylvania puts approximately 1.5 million traffic violations on the books each year, and more than 20% of them are speeding offenses. That means that police throughout the state are issuing over 850 speeding tickets every...
DEA Proposes to Reclassify Marijuana
DEA Aims to Reclassify Marijuana in Historic Shift A recent Gallup poll revealed that over 70% of American adults support marijuana legalization, which is the highest level ever recorded by the polling firm and more than double its polling results in 2000. In 2022,...
The Problems With Lie Detection Methods
Accurate Lie Detection Could Be a Scientific White Whale Police officers and prosecutors have long yearned for a reliable way to tell whether or not a suspect or defendant is telling the truth. The search for an accurate lie-detection device or technique has ushered...