Pennsylvania

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines)– Jeffrey S. Knoble, Jr. was recently spared the death penalty after he was convicted of first-degree murder in Easton, Pennsylvania. While Knoble apparently committed a horrific murder, the District Attorney agreed to...

Fault Lines, (February 7, 2017) — So what is it exactly that makes Pennsylvania prosecutors hate rap so much? Rashee Beasley and his friend Jamal Knox were arrested in April 2012 in Pittsburgh in joint possession...

October 20, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Pennsylvania sentencing law has been on the wrong side of history for a long time. Pennsylvania’s system was indirectly responsible for the long trip to Apprendi-land that marked the past...

October 12, 2016 (Fault Lines) — There are plenty of police officers who do heroic things. They pull people from overturned cars, rush onto busy freeways to save terrified dogs, disarm knife-wielding assailants and even save...

Oct. 11, 2016 (Fault Lines) – Kelly Callihan, the district attorney of Cambria County, PA, has a massive headache. A police-officer-sized headache. The kind that doesn’t go away until you figure out why one of the...

September 26, 2016 (Fault Lines) — In Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, two police officers found a way to get around one of those annoying loopholes that prevent them from locking up people who are guilty, guilty, GUILTY!!!...

July 7, 2016 (Fault Lines) — In the wake of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, the Pennsylvania Senate made a series of amendments to the laws governing child sex abuse. One...

June 9, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Philadelphia officer Christopher Hulmes found himself on the receiving end of yet another pass. Hulmes, a veteran narcotics officer, will receive a sweet deal of a pretrial diversion program in...

June 8, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Although most cops who get caught doing something illegal immediately make the best of a bad situation and keep their mouths shut, one dirty Philadelphia cop has decided to publicly...

May 26, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Earlier this week, a Philadelphia judge sanctioned the District Attorney’s Office for failing to abide by his order to surrender cellphones in a civil suit. Though Judge Bernstein has yet...