State College Legal Blog
Visitation and custody rights for unwed fathers
Biological parents in Pennsylvania possess a right to spend time with their children. The right exists whether or not parents were married at the time of the child’s birth. The court will decide what is best for the child when the visitation or custody rights of an...
Reasons a court may toss a drug case
On behalf of Law Offices of Lance T. Marshall | Sep 30, 2020 | Drug Charges Individuals in Pennsylvania facing drug charges may might those charges dropped for several reasons. Some of these reasons are a direct result of a decision from the Supreme Court. A criminal...
Documents needed by divorce attorneys
Family law attorneys in Pennsylvania will need plenty of information from clients before moving forward with divorce proceedings. Some of this information may include marital assets, joint debt owed by the couple, property valuations and more. The documents that...
Former detective sentenced in drunk driving case
A former Pennsylvania police officer has been sentenced to 10 days of monitored home confinement and six months of rigorous supervised release known as intermediate punishment in connection with a January 2019 drunk driving accident that left a pedestrian seriously...
Former detective sentenced in drunk driving case
A former Pennsylvania police officer has been sentenced to 10 days of monitored home confinement and six months of rigorous supervised release known as intermediate punishment in connection with a January 2019 drunk driving accident that left a pedestrian seriously...
The different stages of alcohol impairment
To operate a motor vehicle in Pennsylvania, a driver must have a blood alcohol content (BAC) of less than .08. A person whose BAC reaches that limit may have a hard time standing, seeing and hearing. It may also be difficult to drive at a reasonable speed or take...
Overdose death leads to narcotics investigation
Police in Pennsylvania have taken a man into custody who they believe sold the drugs that caused the overdose death of an Abingdon man in April. The 37-year-old Philadelphia resident faces a raft of charges including counts of possessing drugs with the intent to...
Drug investigation leads to arrests and gun seizures
An investigation into heroin and methamphetamine trafficking in has led to the arrest of five suspects and the seizure of seven illegal guns according to a press release from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office. Three women and two men were taken into custody...
Alleged Pennsylavia drug gang indicted
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced in a June 3 press release that 11 individuals have been indicted for trafficking heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in Luzerne County. The indictments were handed down by a federal grand jury on...
Nearly half of traffic drug dog searches come up empty
Law enforcement agencies in Pennsylvania and across the United States routinely use drug dogs to "alert" officers to the presence of narcotics in vehicles. However, studies have found that a significant percentage of these alerts fail to yield any drugs once the...
