In Commonwealth v. Diego, 2015 PA Super 143 (Pa. Super. June 23, 2015), the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that text messages sent by...
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules That Spouse’s Testimony of Defendant’s Conduct is not Protected by the Spousal-Communication Privilege
The following story was originally published in the December 2013 edition of Upon Further Review, a publication of the Philadelphia Bar...
Commonwealth Must Prove Causation Was “Direct and Substantial”
In a new opinion in Commonwealth v. Spotti, 2013 WL 1490996, --- A.3d --- (April 12, 2013), the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed...
A Call for Standards in Maintaining Physical Evidence
With the advent of modern forensic technology, hundreds of innocent individuals have been exonerated and released from prison. However,...
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