Hearsay in Pennsylvania: What Actually Counts in Court
What Is Hearsay? How Hearsay in Pennsylvania Really Works in Criminal Court “That’s hearsay. It won’t hold up in court.” We hear it all the...
Category: Criminal Defense
How Can a Lawyer Defend a Guilty Person?
A criminal defense attorney can defend a guilty person because the job was never about judging the client. It is about protecting constitutional rights, making...
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Pennsylvania
Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial in Massachusetts ended in a mistrial after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict on her insanity defense. On this week’s...
Criminal Defense Myths, Debunked
Criminal defense myths influence the split-second choices people make when they are stopped, questioned, or under investigation, and most of those reflexes tend to hurt...
How Criminal Trials Really Work, From Openings to Verdict
The Pennsylvania criminal trial process moves through five stages: opening statements, the case in chief, closing arguments, jury deliberation, and the verdict, with sentencing to...