An unorthodox defense strategy in a child sex-abuse case by a former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach already had puzzled some observers, even before Jerry Sandusky talked with the…
A civil suit filed in 2008 by the 12-year-old Russian boy with whom Kenneth Schneider allegedly began a relationship in 1998 resulted in a 15-year prison term for the suburban…
To avoid actual or perceived connections to Pennsylvania State University, its football team or the Second Mile charity founded by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, all five of Centre…
Asked by NBC’s Bob Costas whether he was sexually attracted to children, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky seemed to hesitate in saying no.
Among a number of individuals and organizations apparently bracing for civil litigation after news that a former assistant football coach at Penn State has been charged with multiple counts of…
In an effort to address charges of child sex abuse against a former assistant football coach at Penn State and accusations that other school officials didn’t do enough to alert…
Once a powerful Pennsylvania state senator who earned $100,000 a year as a lawmaker and another $1 million annually as a rainmaker for a Philadelphia law firm, Vincent Fumo was…
A Philadelphia lawyer who is a former Democratic State Assembly candidate has been accused of operating a Ponzi scheme in a civil lawsuit by the New Jersey Attorney General.
A Pennsylvania lawyer who said he was pressured into participating in a $2.6 million “kids for cash” corruption scheme operated by two then-Luzerne County judges was sentenced today to 18…
The chief judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sued a prominent Philadelphia law firm and a former lawyer there for malpractice, contending that the state paid millions more than…
Comments made by a University of Pittsburgh law student to witnesses, after he was shot outside bar in York, Pa., that someone had tried to steal his cell phone will…
Mistakes by defense lawyers in more than 125 capital murder trials in Pennsylvania led to overturned convictions or new hearings over the last three decades, amounting to nearly a third…
Three Pennsylvania state senate computer hard drives were seized in Harrisburg today concerning a probe of what a judge called doctored evidence when he declared a mistrial earlier this year…
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