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Feb 25, 2020

Commonwealth v. DiNardo

Criminal Justice Reform

Following the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Ford that courts must consider a defendant’s ability to pay a fine at sentencing, it was unclear whether that ruling also applied to...

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Feb 25, 2020

Ortega Campoverde v. Doll et al.

Immigrants' Rights
Status: Open

On February 24, 2020, the ACLU of Pennsylvania and volunteer attorneys from the law firm Dechert LLP filed a federal habeas petition on behalf of Julio Ortega Campoverde of Allentown, who has been held in...

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Feb 20, 2020

Joaquin Marte v. Oliver et al.

Immigrants' Rights
Status: Open

On February 12, 2020, the ACLU of Pennsylvania and volunteer attorneys filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, and two borough police officers over a traffic...

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Jan 24, 2020

Commonwealth v. Davis and Commonwealth v. Lehman

Criminal Justice Reform

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that individuals who were given life sentences while juveniles could not be required to pay the costs of re-sentencing them after their original sentences were ruled...

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Jan 21, 2020

Commonwealth v. Black

Criminal Justice Reform

Weeks after sentencing, the clerk’s office assessed certain court costs and prepared a bill of costs but did not provide it to the defendant. Some of these costs were imposed without statutory authority to...

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Nov 20, 2019

Commonwealth v. Davis

Privacy & Security
Status: Closed

If a defendant in a criminal case refuses to disclose the password to his encrypted computer, does either the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution or Article 1, Section 9 of the Pennsylvania...

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