by Lea Bickerton | Apr 6, 2011 | Blog, Blog Posts, Drug Crimes, Evidentiary Issues, Federal Court Cases, In the News
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a federal judge may permit a drug case to proceed after the Allegheny County Office of the District Attorney destroyed evidence. The case, which is being heard by U.S. District Court Judge Gustave Diamond, involves a defendant...
by Lea Bickerton | Mar 20, 2011 | Blog, Blog Posts, In the News, Laws of Questionable Merit
The Associated Press reports that South Carolina is considering legislation that would limit prison inmates’ access to Facebook. The law, if enacted, would prohibit inmates from accessing Facebook from inside the prison facility and from having friends or...
by Lea Bickerton | Oct 23, 2009 | Homicide, In the News
Rickie Lee Fowler has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder after after five men died from heart attacks during the 2003 San Bernadino wildfires. Supervising Deputy District Attorney Victor Strull contends that, even though the men did not die in the...
by Lea Bickerton | Oct 23, 2009 | Constitutional Rights, In the News, Prostitution
U.S. District Court Judge John Grady has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Craiglist alleging that the company failed to adequately deter prostitutes from posting in its “Erotic Services” (now “Adult Services”) section. Judge Grady concluded...
by Lea Bickerton | Oct 23, 2009 | In the News, Jail Conditions
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Allegheny County Jail has taped attorney-client telephone calls and released some of those tapes to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Jail officials contend that the taping was likely the inadvertent result of a change in...
by Lea Bickerton | Sep 26, 2009 | In the News, Pittsburgh G20
On Saturday night, a group gathered in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh to protest police actions during demonstrations held during the two-day Pittsburgh G20 summit. While almost 200 people were arrested during the demonstrations on Thursday and Friday, as of 11:58...
