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A former itinerant preacher who is serving a 66 year, eight month, minimum prison sentence for the rape of a Bedford County child has been granted a new hearing by the Pennsylvania Superior Court.
Walter Donald Bradshaw, 71, has been seeking a hearing for several years so he can challenge the effectiveness of his attorneys. Bradshaw claims the attorneys may not have told him about a possible plea agreement for a much lighter sentence.
A panel of Superior Court judges ruled 2-1 late last week that Bradshaw was entitled to present his argument before a Bedford County judge. The panel ordered a new post-conviction hearing.
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The Pennsylvania Superior Court said Tuesday that an Allegheny County Common Pleas judge erred when he did not sentence the man convicted of killing a family of three in a fiery Thanksgiving Day crash in 2016 to a mandatory term of life in prison.
Demetrius Coleman, 26, who is being house at the State Correctional Institution at Albion, must be resentenced, the appellate court found on Tuesday.
According to the prosecution, he fled from a traffic stop in North Versailles about 2:15 p.m. on Nov. 24, 2016.
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The Pennsylvania Superior Court late last week upheld a decision by Blair County Judge Daniel J. Milliron in which he awarded attorney fees and interest amounting to more than $274,000 in a civil case involving a plaintiff who died in 2014.
In making his ruling in 2019, Milliron found that an insurance company had acted in “bad faith” and “with a purpose motivated by self interest” in its handling of a claim by an Altoona woman who suffered severe injuries in a motor vehicle accident that occurred along Logan Boulevard more than 20 years ago.
Milliron’s decision also indicated his support for an arbitration award of nearly $600,000 received by the women’s estate.
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process. In an ideal international commercial arbitration equally
sided parties may freely decide to arbitrate as well as agree on
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