In Pennsylvania, your defense lawyer can assert your right against illegal search and seizure with a Motion to Suppress evidence. If your lawyer doesn’t fight this issue, it is waived and you can’t argue it at trial or on appeal.
Many will take the day and enjoy it with family and friends with a barbeque, fireworks and other events. While it is our sincere hope that you and your family will enjoy this and all holidays without an issue, as I have stated a countless number of times, a drunk driving charge can happen to anyone regardless of their station in life.
Villanova University, the once small regional private Roman Catholic college on Pennsylvania’s Main Line that has grown to a national academic and athletic powerhouse, once again made headlines recently for the wrong reasons.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and Florida where the Judkins incident allegedly occurred maintains a strict procedure which allows a police officer to arrest a person if the officer believes that a defendant has violated the Pennsylvania or New Jersey crimes code with regards to a crime of violence. This type of evidence can include a victim’s statement, other witnesses’ statements and observation of injuries to the alleged victim.
The Ferguson and Shifflet decisions are very different. The Commonwealth v. Shifflett case focused in on Due Process and the Ferguson v. Penndot case focused on the administrative police powers of an agency within the Commonwealth-PennDOT.
Recently, in Commonwealth v. Sumpter, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that at least one of Pennsylvania’s gun laws, Section 6108, a violation under Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act (VUFA) – Carrying of firearms in Philadelphia Without a License, is unconstitutional.
If you’re stopped for suspicion of a DUI/DWI in Pennsylvania or New Jersey, a police officer or state trooper will likely ask for you to submit to a field sobriety test.
This case presents a good opportunity to compare the bail systems in California with Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In California, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a bail hearing is a legal proceeding where a criminal court judge decides whether to release a defendant from custody while awaiting trial.
The Superior Court had previously affirmed a trial court decision which found that the prosecution only had to establish non ownership to satisfy the issue that the defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy (REOP) and therefore no standing to assert the constitutional right against illegal search and seizure.
While this criminal prosecution did not occur in the United States, the case made headlines here. One of the players charged is Philadelphia Flyer’s Goalie, Carter Hart.
