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Courts & Law

The Montgomery County Courthouse Plaza in Norristown, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Pennsylvania

A voter’s guide to 2021 court elections in Bucks, Montco, Delco, and Chester counties

An overview of the judicial candidates in Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester counties for the May 18, 2021 primary.

4 years ago

District Attorney Larry Krasner (left) and prosecutor Carlos Vega participated in an hourlong debate co-hosted by NBC10 and KYW on May 5, 2021. (Screenshot via NBC10)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia
Politics

Philly’s gun violence epidemic the top issue at Krasner, Vega debate

Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic took center stage during a heated, wide-ranging debate between the two Democrats running to become the city’s next district attorney.

4 years ago

Philadelphia City Hall is reflected in the windows of the Office of the District Attorney
Criminal Justice
Incarceration
Philadelphia

DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit gains exoneration in 2010 murder case

The Conviction Integrity Unit found police beat Obina Onyiah to coerce a confession in the slaying of a Lawncrest jewelry store owner William Glatz.

4 years ago

In this April 20, 2021 file image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvin's trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd,, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Nelson has requested a new trial, saying the court abused its discretion when it refused to change the venue in the original proceedings, according to a court document filed Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)
Criminal Justice
National

Chauvin’s lawyer seeks new trial, impeachment of verdict

Derek Chauvin was convicted last month of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 25 death of George Floyd.

4 years ago

The new body-worn camera is displayed on the uniform of a Wilmington Police officer. (courtesy City of Wilmington)
Delaware
Policing

Wilmington Police to launch department-wide bodycam program next month

Just days after a state task force urged use of body cameras for all Delaware police officers, Wilmington police will start training on the cams next week.

4 years ago

Kimberly Esack addresses the press from a DAO podium
Crime
Housing
Philadelphia

Philadelphia man charged with stealing 14 homes through deed theft

Such fraud is fueled by a white-hot real estate market, said Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Esack, with the office’s Economic Crimes unit.

4 years ago

Protesters march outside Penn Museum, with one sign prominent that reads,
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

UPenn hires lawyer who led 1985 MOVE commission to investigate handling of remains

Carl E. Singley works at Tucker Law Group, considered the region’s largest Black-owned firm.

4 years ago

In its finding in favor of the Pinelands pipeline, a state appeals court said it did not threaten the rare sickle-leaved golden aster. (Doug McGrady via Creative Commons)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Appeals court rejects environmentalists’ call to halt Pinelands pipeline

The court accepted that the pipeline poses no threat to the sickle-leaved golden aster, a rare plant, if construction avoided horizontal directional drilling,

4 years ago

A closeup of a Delaware State Police vehicle
Delaware
Policing

Del. task force urges mandatory body cams, transparency about misconduct, and law to ease prosecuting officers who use deadly force

The votes are a far cry from getting new laws enacted. But they signal consensus by legislators, citizens, and law enforcement that change is needed.

4 years ago

The exterior of Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility as seen through a fence
Crime
Gun Violence
Philadelphia

Philly teen arrested in connection to 4 murders, including fatal shooting on prison grounds

Police say Ameer Hurst, 16, shot and killed Rodney Hargrove, 20, last month less than an hour after Hargrove was released from Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility.

4 years ago

The exterior of Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey.
Incarceration
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

More charges, but no word on N.J. prison investigations

Ten officers and supervisors face criminal charges after a violent assault at New Jersey’s only women’s prison.

4 years ago

In this April 23, 2021, file photo members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Before the Supreme Court this is week is an argument over whether public schools can discipline students over something they say off-campus. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
K-12

Wary Supreme Court weighs Pa. student’s Snapchat profanity case

The current dispute stems from Tinker v. Des Moines, the Vietnam-era case of a high school in Des Moines, Iowa.

4 years ago

The proposed PennEast pipeline would pass through the fields of the Christman farm, seen from the intersection of Station Street and Pohopoco Drive in Lehighton. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

SCOTUS hears arguments in eminent domain case involving PennEast pipeline project

The 116-mile pipeline would ship Marcellus Shale gas from Luzerne County in Northeast Pennsylvania across the Delaware River to Mercer County, New Jersey.

4 years ago

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Wanda Cooper-Jones kneels before the grave of her son, Ahmaud Arbery, at the New Springfield Baptist Church in Waynesboro, Ga., to mark the one year anniversary of Ahmaud Arbery's death in Brunswick, Ga. The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the death of Arbery, who was killed while out for a run.(AP Photo/Lewis M. Levine, file)
Black Lives Matter
Social Justice

U.S. indicts 3 on hate crime charges in death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia

The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday in the death of a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year.

4 years ago

Amanda Spence holds a pillow with photos of her slain husband Lymond Moses and their two children in front of New Castle County police headquarters. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Black Lives Matter
Delaware
Policing
Social Justice

Federal lawsuit filed against New Castle County over police killing of Lymond Moses in Wilmington

Police say Lymond Moses drove at a high rate of speed ‘directly’ at officers, but a lawsuit says bodycam footage undermines that account and shows officers were in no danger.

4 years ago

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