The public health emergency is straining Pennsylvania landlords and tenants alike. People are losing jobs, taking pay cuts and dealing with illness and even loss of life. These difficulties all too often are causing people to fall behind on rent. Frequently changing...
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Supreme Court Ends Mandatory Life Sentences for Juvenile Offenders
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States held that juveniles convicted of murder cannot receive mandatory life sentences. The decision in Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs does not prohibit such convicts from receiving life sentences, but it does...
Fighting an Uphill Battle
Last week, Jeff Rowe put forth a vigorous defense in a difficult criminal case. His client, an inmate at the State Correctional Institute at Muncy, was charged with two separate assaults on a prison guard. Despite the unpleasant allegations involved and the...
Hurricane Recovery
While the region we serve was fortunate enough to avoid the brunt of Hurricane Sandy, several communities we care about were not so lucky. We urge you to donate to the American Red Cross to assist their disaster relief efforts.
Get Out of the Way (Even if You’re Not in the Way)!
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania has recently held that a driver may be stopped for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle even if the emergency vehicle is traveling in opposing lanes of traffic and has an open lane of travel. In Commonwealth v. Busser, 2012 PA...
MBH Honored for Public Service
The Lycoming Law Association and North Penn Legal Services recently awarded our firm with an Outstanding Law Firm Achievement Award for 2012. This award is given to firms who support the Pro Bono Referral Program by having all of their lawyers accept cases from...
MBH in the News
Last week Jeff Rowe represented a client in Lancaster County at a post-conviction hearing in a highly-publicized and contentious homicide case. You can read the front-page article from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal by clicking here. As you can see from the...
Does McNeely impact PA’s DUI laws?
Earlier this week the U.S. Supreme Court held that the police cannot obtain BAC results without a warrant in every DUI case. Some commentators, including the Allegheny County DA’s Office, quickly–and correctly–pointed out that this ruling won’t affect the majority of...
Add Another Quirk to DUI Sentencing in PA
Last week the Superior Court issued a decision in Commonwealth v. Musau, 2013 Pa.Super. 159, that resolved a little-noticed conflict in PA’s DUI sentencing laws. Mr. Musau had been convicted of his second DUI in ten years despite his refusal to submit to a blood...
Q & A: What is the 10-yr look back period for DUIs?
A prospective client recently contacted me with the following facts. “I have had 3 previous DUIs in the past. I incurred two DUI’s in 2001 within months of each other. I was granted ARD for the first one (before I got the 2nd one), and I got another a few months...