
Courts & Law
Driver could face jail time for death of Center City cyclist
The truck driver who hit and killed Emily Fredricks, a 24-year-old pastry chef riding to work on a Spruce Street bike lane in 2017, could face prison time.
6 years ago
Handling priority mail: Pennsylvania’s prison mail controversy
The controversy has raised the question of what takes precedent: the safety and security of prisons or the protection of attorney-client privilege?
Air Date: February 27, 2019
Listen 12:44Nearly 6,000 abuse complaints at migrant children shelters
Thousands of accusations of sexual abuse and harassment of migrant children in government-funded shelters were made over the past four years.
6 years ago
Philadelphia drivers rarely prosecuted for crashes that kill pedestrians, cyclists
Only a fraction of drivers in crashes that kill pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists ever face serious criminal charges.
6 years ago
Bill Baroni, former N.J. official convicted in Bridgegate case, gets 18 months in prison
The aide to former Gov. Chris Christie was resentenced in federal court after a federal appeals court last year threw out two of the seven charges against him.
6 years ago
Corrections Dept. says it has no plans to give inmates original copies of their mail
At an annual budget hearing in Harrisburg, Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reaffirmed the policy is staying put.
6 years ago
DA: Murder-suicide pact a ‘potentiality’ in Bucks quintuple homicide
Police found a Pennsylvania woman and her teenage daughter in an apartment with the bodies of five relatives they had killed, including three children.
6 years ago
Manafort seeks leniency in sentencing
Paul Manafort's attorneys argued to a federal court on Monday that their client is not a hardened criminal and shouldn't be sentenced too harshly.
6 years ago
Sex abuse, the powerful, and criminal justice
We discuss the Jeffrey Epstein and other recent cases of powerful people who, until now, have escaped justice for sex abuse crimes.
Air Date: February 26, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:29Catholic cardinal charged with child sex abuse convicted in Australia
The jury convicted Cardinal George Pell of abusing two 13-year-old boys whom he had caught swigging sacramental wine in Melbourne's St. Patrick's Cathedral in late 1996
6 years ago
Lawyer enters not guilty plea for R. Kelly in sex abuse case
R&B singer R. Kelly's attorney entered a not guilty plea on behalf of his client Monday as the singer faces multiple charges of sexual abuse in Chicago.
6 years ago
Is 2019 the year Pa. gives LGBTQ+ people discrimination protection?
Pennsylvania's Human Relations Act grants certain groups of people extra legal protection against discrimination. One group it misses? LGBTQ+ people.
6 years ago
Judge rules against State Department in same-sex couple’s citizenship lawsuit
Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks have twin sons, born four minutes apart. The U.S. State Department has maintained that one is a U.S. citizen and one is not.
6 years ago
R. Kelly bond set at $1M after arrest on charges of aggravated sexual abuse
Kelly is being allowed to go free as he awaits trial after posting $100,000, or 10 percent of the bond.
6 years ago
Mueller: Manafort ‘brazenly violated the law’ for years
Citing Manafort's lies to the FBI, several government agencies and his own lawyer, prosecutors said that "upon release from jail, Manafort presents a grave risk of recidivism.
6 years ago