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USA v. Nagi

Indictment Arising From Travel to Turkey With Intent to Enter Syria to Join ISIL Not Dismissed
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Mexican Journalists Caught in Crossfire of Rival Drug Cartels

Just as each batch of the weekly newspapers was dropped off at newsstands around Culiacan, men quickly bought them up as they followed the delivery trucks along their routes.
11 minute read

The Recorder

People ex rel. Harris v. Aguayo

5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Pinkney, PICS Case No. 17-0781 (C.P. Lycoming, Apr. 19, 2017) Butts, J. (7 pages).

Where delay in scheduling defendant's criminal trial was excusable or attributable to defendant, the court held dismissal was not warranted.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Brown, PICS Case No.17-0794 (Pa. Super. May 4, 2017) Stevens, J. (18 pages).

Defendant's trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to cross-examine the rape victim about a purported past sexual relationship with defendant where counsel's tactic was reasonable under the circumstances and defendant failed to demonstrate prejudice. The appellate court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Christian, PICS Case No. 17-0718 (C.P. Lawrence April 23, 2017) Motto, J. (8 pages).

The Commonwealth's evidence was not inadmissible as fruit of the poisonous tree where it was obtained separately and independently of information obtained by Ohio law enforcement officials in an illegal traffic stop. The court denied defendant's motion to suppress evidence.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Treece, PICS Case No. 17-0797 (Pa. Super. May 5, 2017) Lazarus, J. (18 pages).

Evidence was insufficient to support conviction for escape where defendant, being treated at the hospital, was released from restraints and police officers guarding him had left the hospital nearly two hours prior without advising defendant that he was not free to leave, such that defendant was no longer in "official detention" for purpose of escape statute because police were no longer actively exerting authority over defendant. Judgment of sentence vacated.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Shabazz-Davis, PICS Case No. 17-0796 (Pa. Super. May 8, 2017) Stevens, J. (17 pages).

Trial court appropriately exercised discretion to impose life sentence upon minor where it reviewed various factors, including defendant's age, maturity, life circumstances, amenability to rehabilitation, and the crime itself to conclude that imposition of a life sentence was warranted. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Ruffin, PICS Case No. 17-0782 (C.P. Lycoming May 4, 2017) Butts, J. (11 pages).

The commonwealth presented prima facie evidence at the preliminary hearing to support the charges against defendant in connection with a heroin deal, but failed to show that defendant constructively possessed another controlled substance.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Golphin, PICS Case No. 17-0795 (Pa. Super. May 8, 2017) Stevens, J. (31 pages).

Evidence of defendant's prior abuse of victim and family members was admissible where the acts constituted part of a chain of events that formed the history and natural development of the case. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
7 minute read

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