The counties of Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, and Bucks are rife with college campuses as well as hundreds of public and private high schools. There are so many kids and young people, so many social situations, and, as we all know, sometimes there is alcohol present. It’s a fact of life that some kids drink and […]
When a kid gets a yellow ticket for Underage Drinking, Minors in Possession of Alcohol, or Fake ID (these are all part of the same law), he or she has two choices: Plead “Guilty” or “Not Guilty”. To help the reader understand the ramifications of their decision, I will be blunt: pleading “guilty” is just […]
As a Pennsylvania Underage Drinking Lawyer, when I talk to parents that have hired me to represent their child who has received an underage drinking citation in Pennsylvania, I usually end up having a somewhat different conversation with them than I do the kids themselves.
West Chester University is a partying school; of this there is no doubt. Parties mean beer and college parties mean beer ingested by underaged persons. A decent amount of these persons will get underaged drinking tickets. They will also have to go to court to fight the ticket because pleading guilty to an underaged […]
I am a PA DUI and Criminal Lawyer. As part and parcel of this area of my practice I have seen the number of young people cited for Underage Drinking steadily rise each and every year. A great many of my cases take me to the “Main Line”, an area starting at Bala Cynwyd, Pa […]
Breathalyzer or… No Graduation? I think we can all agree that keeping alcohol out of our schools is an admirable goal but what happened last week in St. Charles, Minnesota took the notion a little too far. Seniors at St. Charles High School were made to submit to breathalyzer tests by the school prior […]
Lower Merion Township is one of the most affluent townships in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is composed mostly of the towns of Ardmore, Narberth, and Bala Cynwyd and is very close in proximity to Villanova and St. Josephs Universities. Additionally, Lower Merion Township has jurisdiction over a portion of the Schulykill Expressway (I-76) at […]