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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We often have clients ask about expungement, especially as it relates to completing Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) or Probation Without Verdict (PWOV or Section 17). Whether an expungement truly provides the benefit of a completely clean record depends...
Very recently, a police department in our area has begun using ENRADD speed timing devices to catch heavy-footed motorists. While ENRADD has been around for a few years, this is the first that we’ve seen it used in or around Lycoming County. ENRADD times vehicles...
Under an interesting proposal in the state Senate, first time DUI offenders would be given the option of installing an ignition interlock device on their vehicles for six months and keeping their driving privileges, or serving a year-long license suspension. At...
Why does a firm in central PA care about a small city in southwestern Wisconsin? Because the people there are remarkably responsible when it comes to estate planning and advanced directives. According to NPR, roughly 96% of the adult population in La Crosse has an...
On a local radio show this week, the open phones segment lead to a discussion regarding marijuana policy in Pennsylvania. One caller provided such a spectacular example of how not to participate in such a debate that I can only hope he was kidding. My criminal law...