As we all know, if someone is caught committing a crime in the state of Pennsylvania, or any other state, they get arrested. Part of the process of getting arrested is having the police take your picture and and take an impression of your fingerprints. It is done for every crime that is graded as […]
Lower Merion Township is currently considering a police proposal to have cameras installed at “accident heavy” intersections so that they may ticket motorists that run red lights. Parts of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are currently the only cities in Pennsylvania that use cameras in this fashion.
When a person is on probation or parole as result of a conviction for some type of drug charge part a condition of that person’s supervision will be that they not take illegal drugs. Not an unreasonable request, right? It has been my experience when dealing with Montgomery County probation violations that the vast majority […]
As a Pennsylvania suspended license lawyer, I have the opportunity to review hundreds of driving records a year. In my experience, there are basically four reasons why licenses are suspended.
Montgomery County is home to a booming commerce industry with high concentration of retailers in King Of Prussia, Limerick, Bala Cynwyd, and Ardmore. Consequently, Pennsylvania is always among the leaders in retail theft arrests and prosecutions. 2011 was no different. According to a survey conducted by Jack L. Hayes International of 24 of the […]
Sobriety checkpoints are a fact of life in Pennsylvania and they ARE put in the most inconvenient spots – you know – at the time and place where drunk drivers are most likely to be.
In 2001, Pennsylvania passed a law requiring that any repeat DUI offender must have a device placed on their car after their regular term of license suspension is over. An example: a person is convicted of their second DUI offense within 10 years and their blood alcohol level was a .14. This is a “middle tier” […]
In Pennsylvania, if you get a lot of tickets, you end up losing your driver’s license. Its just a fact of life. By far, the most common length of license suspension is for one year (1) year. But if you get the wrong types of tickets, within a rather short period of time, you can trigger what […]
As a Montgomery County DUI lawyer, I have always been baffled but the concept of what the Pennsylvania State Police call the “drug recognition expert” or “DRE”. This is the cop that is “specially trained” to detect and ferret out those drivers that are driving the roads drunk or under the influence of drugs. […]
The most common sentence for a defendant who has been convicted of a crime in Pennsylvania is a term of probation. The idea is that the defendant stay out of trouble for the probationary term or risk going back to jail. Well, as you might have guessed, there is a fair amount of people […]