This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Tyler Kingkade on June 24th, 2016. A group of 116 lawyers, criminal defense attorneys and public defenders have signed an open letter in support of Judge Aaron Persky, who handed down a controversial six-month jail term for convicted sex offender Brock Turner. The sentence, widely considered far too lenient, sparked a national backlashagainst Persky, including […]

This article original appeared on Huffington Post by Christian Farias on June 9th, 2016. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Pennsylvania’s former top judgeviolated the Constitution when he failed to sit out the case of a young man for whom he had recommended the death penalty back when he was district attorney. The high court’s case was chiefly a dispute over

This article originall appeared on The News Eagle by Ben Steverman on June 17th, 2016. Millennials, enjoy your nuptials as the summer wedding season hits its stride. Back home, your folks may be hiring divorce lawyers. The statistic that half of all marriages fail, long whispered by wedding guests and worried over by reluctant brides and grooms, has

This article originally appeared on the Legal Intelligencer by Michael Bertin on June 20th. People may remember in the fall of 2014 a state Superior Court case, Huss v. Weaver, C.D. No: 2013-1209, was published where the Superior Court reversed a trial court’s decision to sustain preliminary objections dismissing a complaint for breach of contract when a father

This article originally appeared on JDSupra Business Advisor by Justine Abrams on June 21st, 2016. Parties to a divorce frequently feel that they are biting off more than they can chew.  The reality often is that the two parties living separate lives cannot live as economically secure as they did when they were together.  Nonetheless, they often have financial

Thie article originally appeared on Billings Gazette on June 13th, 2016 by Ashley Nerbovig A woman suspected of driving drunk with three children in the vehicle and of supplying a fourth child with alcohol was charged Monday. Valena Dawn Blackeagle, 31, was charged in Yellowstone County Justice Court with three counts of felony criminal child endangerment, misdemeanor unlawful

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Submitted on Briefs February 13, 2012. Decided May 10, 2012. OPINION BY Judge McGINLEY. Marie Himmelberger (Appellant), Executrix of the Estate of Sharon Warnock (Decedent), disputes an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County (common pleas court) that sustained the Notice of Inheritance Tax Appraisement, Allowance or Disallowance of Deductions and

The article was originally published on The Washington Times by Bradford Richardson on June 9, 2016. For the tidy sum of $2,000, terminally ill Californians can now pay a doctor to help them commit suicide. Dr. Lonny Shavelson, who heads Bay Area End of Life Options, said he charges $200 for an initial evaluation and $1,800 in other fees

This article was originally published on Huffington Post on June 8, 2016 (Reuters) – Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich on Wednesday signed a bill legalizing marijuana use for medical purposes under certain circumstances, his office said. Over the last few years, state legislatures and voters in the United States have been much more receptive to making marijuana

This article was originally published on Huff Post by Dominique Mosbergen on June 6, 2016 Brock Allen Turner, the ex-Stanford University swimmer who was convicted in March of three felony sex abuse charges, was sentenced last week to just six months in county jail. With good behavior, he could be released in three months or less. In the aftermath of