For many of us, our cell phones are necessary requirements for work, home life, and fun and serve as an essential means of communication in our society. We all use our phones as not just a way to communicate, but now as a way to surf the web, send email, check our bank accounts and
Year: 2015
DUI Stops and Bikes
College students know that drinking and driving is bad, and for most students, avoiding DUI/DWI charges is easy if they do not bring cars to campus, but rather rely on the school’s public transportation and walking paths. Because so many college campuses spread out for miles and encompass several buildings and dorms that students use and
MYTHBUSTING #1- POLICE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO REVEAL THEIR IDENTITY. MISUNDERSTANDING “ENTRAPMENT”
As a criminal defense attorney, I have represented countless people charged with crimes ranging from very minor offenses to violent felonies. In almost all cases, I will have to answer questions put to me by my clients about the way they were treated by the police. More often than not, my answers surprise my clients
ARRESTED AT A PENN STATE FOOTBALL GAME? HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
There’s nothing quite like a football game at Beaver Stadium on a beautiful fall afternoon here in State College, Pennsylvania. On a few special days a year over 100,000 football fans descend upon sleepy Happy Valley to hang out in State College, tailgate at the stadium and attend a football game. The “population” of State
CELEBRATING THE HOME TEAM
For many people, fall means football, and for student athletes in colleges and universities across the country, football season is a semester-long celebration of hard work and sportsmanship. College football has many rituals attached to it, from tailgating the day of the big game to celebrating with parties afterwards, and on most college campuses, these
ARE YOU ALLOWED TO POSSESS MARIJUANA IN PENNSYLVANIA IF YOU HAVE A MEDICAL MARIJUANA CARD FROM ANOTHER STATE?
Quite simply, the answer is no. While a growing number of US States now permit the use, distribution and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes and a few states, notably Washington and Colorado, have even legalized the recreational use of marijuana, marijuana remains illegal under Pennsylvania law. Furthermore, marijuana remains illegal under Federal law (although
WHY YOU ARE NOT FULLY INSURED UNLESS YOUR AUTO INSURANCE INCLUDES UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE
Clients often come into our office after sustaining personal injuries in a car accident and exclaim, “I am fully insured, so my insurance company is going to take care of everything.” Unfortunately, when we look at our clients’ car insurance policies, we learn that the client lacks the single most important insurance coverage that money
TRUCK ACCIDENT CLAIMS
Many of our country’s shipments are made using large trucks and tractor trailers, and often, drivers of these large vehicles are working long, demanding hours on the road to deliver and transport products across the country. In Pennsylvania and almost every other state, the highways and roads provide direct access for truckers, but this access
Why do so many criminal cases result in a guilty plea?
As a State College criminal defense attorney, I have represented countless individuals who were charged with crimes here in Centre County, PA and in many other counties throughout the Commonwealth. The crimes charged have ranged from minor summary offenses to DUI’s, major drug cases, and violent felonies. Every case presents unique challenges both in terms of the legal and factual questions involved
DID YOU KNOW? DRIVER LIMITED TORT SELECTION AFFECTS PASENGERS IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Often personal injury client’s contact our law firm who believe that they are covered by their full tort selection on their own auto insurance policy only to come to find out that they are bound by the limited tort selection of the driver of the vehicle they were a passenger in. For an in depth