Monthly Archives: March 2022
Bucks County Man Sentenced To At Least 49 Years In Prison For Sexually Assaulting Five Children
In theory, the punishment for a crime should be proportionate to the extent to which the harm the victim suffered because of it can be repaired. In cases where the crime only caused financial losses to the victims, it is possible to compensate the victims for their financial losses by ordering payment of restitution… Read More »
Two Western Pennsylvania Defendants Plead Guilty To Receiving COVID Relief Benefits For Which They Were Ineligible
Receiving unemployment benefits is just one of the ways that it is expensive to be poor. If your income from work increases by a few cents, you could risk losing hundreds of dollars in benefits, putting you in an even worse financial situation than you were in before you got the pay raise. Then… Read More »
Three Allegheny County Men Convicted Of Drug Trafficking Conspiracy
The constitutional rights of defendants in criminal cases matter at every stage of the legal process of investigating alleged crimes, determining whether a defendant has committed those crimes, and implementing an appropriate punishment if the defendant is convicted. Defense lawyers do more than just try to persuade jurors that the defendant is innocent or,… Read More »
Jury Convicts Westmoreland County Dad Of Transporting Child In Car With 300 Bricks Of Heroin
If you don’t know this, then the drug charges you are facing are probably not the most serious ones, but a stamp bag is the unit in which injectable drugs, especially those that purport to be heroin, are sold on the street. The name is in reference to the fact that the original ones… Read More »
