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Law

Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski, far right, plays a video the jury asked to see as part of their deliberation during the trial of Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William
Courts & Law

Philly’s former chief defender on why the jury convicted Ahmaud Arbery’s killers

Keir Bradford-Grey, former chief of the Philadelphia Defenders Association, explains why the defendants’ claims of self-defense did not hold up in court.

4 years ago

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Ahmaud Arbery's father Marcus Arbery, center, his hugged by his attorney Benjamin Crump after the jury convicted Travis McMichael in the Glynn County Courthouse, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga.  Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William
Courts & Law

‘There’s some hope for this country’: Philly civil rights advocate responds to Arbery verdict

Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler, co-director for the racial justice organization Power Live Free said the case was about much more than what happened to Ahmaud Arbery.

4 years ago

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Alt Right demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017
Courts & Law

Jury awards $26M in damages for Unite the Right violence

A jury has ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay $26 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville.

4 years ago

Judge Lori Dumas
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

With incumbent’s concession, Dems have flipped a Pa. Commonwealth Court seat

Dumas will become the sole person of color on the 10-member court. That makes her just the second out of 31 judges on all three Pennsylvania appellate courts.

4 years ago

Johnny Bobbitt Jr., (left), Kate McClure, and Mark D'Amico pose at a gas station
Courts & Law

N.J. man in GoFundMe scam pleads guilty to federal charge

Mark D'Amico, his ex-girlfriend Katelyn McClure, and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had made up a story that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, prosecutors say.

4 years ago

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Money

Multilevel marketing & pyramid schemes

Is there a difference? Millions of people participate in direct-sales companies, recruiting friends and families to sell products, with the ultimate promise of hope.

Air Date: November 19, 2021 10:00 am

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Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg
Politics & Policy

Pa. state officials, lawmakers, and judges get big 2022 pay raise

It is the largest year-over-year increase since 1991, according to the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

4 years ago

Henry Montgomery laughs inside the Louisiana Parole Project offices in Baton Rouge, La. after being released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, after serving 57 years in prison, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Montgomery, central to a Supreme Court case that extended the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to life without parole as juveniles has been released from prison after being granted parole. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Courts & Law

Officials release prisoner who was key in juvenile life debate

In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory sentencing of life without parole for juvenile offenders was “cruel and unusual” punishment.

4 years ago

Kyle Rittenhouse pulls numbers of jurors out of a tumbler during his trial
Courts & Law

Rittenhouse lawyers ask judge to declare mistrial over video

Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorneys have asked the judge to declare a mistrial, saying the defense received an inferior copy of a key video from prosecutors.

4 years ago

Supporters of IBEW leader John Dougherty crowd the lobby of the federal courthouse in Philadelphia after guilty verdicts were returned against Dougherty and City Council member Bobby Henon. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

‘Philadelphia cannot simply shrug’: A call for change greets news of Henon’s guilty verdict

The verdict comes more than 6 years after the FBI began wiretapping phones belonging to Henon and Dougherty, and five years after the federal investigation exploded into view.

4 years ago

A closeup of Bobby Henon
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

John Dougherty and Bobby Henon convicted of conspiracy in federal corruption trial

A jury found City Councilmember Bobby Henon and union boss John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty guilty on most counts in the federal corruption case against them.

4 years ago

John
Courts & Law
Billy Penn

‘Corrupt agreement’ or ‘lawful lobbying’? Catch up on the federal bribery trial of Johnny Doc and Bobby Henon

If you haven’t been following the day-to-day drama, here’s a handy recap.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations after touring a Clayco Corporation construction site for a Microsoft data center in Elk Grove Village, Ill., Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021
Politics & Policy
6abc

Federal appeals court reaffirms hold on President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate

The court ruled that OSHA cannot take steps to enforce the mandate until a further decision is made.

4 years ago

John
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Jury in Henon, Dougherty bribery trial to continue deliberations on Monday

The jury in the bribery trial for Bobby Henon and Johnny “Doc” Dougherty ended its third day of deliberations Friday without reaching a verdict.

4 years ago

John
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Jury in Dougherty-Henon corruption trial asks for guidance as deliberations continue

The jurors’ question may indicate they are nearing the end of their deliberations in the federal corruption trial of Bobby Henon and John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty.

4 years ago

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