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An Altoona man, who continued to fight drug charges filed against him in 2010 even though he had already completed his prison sentence, has now lost his appeal before the Pennsylvania Superior Court.
Shawn Edward Gibson, who appeared before Blair County Judge Daniel J. Milliron last year concerning his release on bail from the State Correctional Institution at Pine Grove, said he was continuing with his appeal before the Superior Court because, “I want to clear my name.”
He maintained that he shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.
Milliron had already indicated that Gibson was entitled to be resentenced on his charges based on a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, known as the Alleyne case, that found Pennsylvania’s mandatory sentencing laws unconstitutional.
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A former Altoona man in prison for drug-related offenses that occurred more than two decades ago has lost his latest attempt to have his 31-year minimum sentence reduced.
Charles A. Bellon, now 41, argued to the Pennsylvania Superior Court that he had been denied a hearing before a Blair County judge who was under a federal court order to resentence him.
Senior Judge Hiram A. Carpenter of Blair County, who presided over Bellon’s trial in 2006, and who sentenced him to serve 31 to 62 years in a state correctional institution, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Kim R. Gibson to correct a portion of Bellon’s 2006 sentence.
York attorney announces candidacy for court of common pleas
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Posted Mar 03, 2021
York attorney Suzanne Smith has announced her candidacy as a judge for the York County Court of Common Pleas.
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Attorney Suzanne S. Smith of York has announced her intention to run for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in York County.
Having practiced law for nearly three decades, Smith, a Republican, is a graduate of the University of Dayton Law School. She has previously worked as a clerk for the Honorable John C. Uhler and in the York County Office of the Public Defender. She also worked in private practice at Kearney & Marshall and eventually opened her own firm, Marshall & Smith.
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We regularly tell clients that intent is meaningless when it comes to deception under Section 5 of the FTC Act. And that’s true (or we wouldn’t say it). But fewer people realize that it’s not necessarily true when it comes to a minority of the states. As of a couple weeks ago, however, that number has shrunk by one, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In
Gregg et al. v. Ameriprise Financial Inc. et al., the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that Pennsylvania’s Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (CPL) does not require a showing of intent to hold defendants liable. This 4-3 decision, which was nearly 20 years in the making, makes clear that the statute functions in a strict liability manner. There no longer needs to be a finding of fraud or negligence for a court to deem a business’s practices deceptive. This broadens the power of the law to regulate unscrupulous business practices.
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