Barrier to Mumia’s appeal dismissed: Case can move forward
By Betsey Piette posted on December 17, 2020
Philadelphia
A significant roadblock to Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal of his unjust 1982 murder conviction was removed on Dec. 16, when Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices dismissed an attempt by the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police to obtain a change of venue in the case.
With this new ruling, all of Abu-Jamal’s pending appeals and motions in the Pennsylvania Superior Court will move forward from where they left off in February, when the state Supreme Court stayed all proceedings until the justices decided on the FOP’s King’s Bench petition.
McLaughin announces run for Pa. Supreme Court
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Her bid comes three years after she won her Superior Court seat.
“My candidacy shines a light on the endless possibilities open to little girls and young women everywhere who come from humble beginnings,” McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin is a former Philadelphia prosecutor and Philadelphia County judge. She is a 1988 graduate of Penn State University and earned her law degree from the Delaware Law School of Widener University in 1992.
The Supreme Court seat currently held by Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor will be on the ballot next year.
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Woman can’t keep $4.15M winning lottery ticket, court rules
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
A Pennsylvania woman must forfeit a $4.15 million lottery ticket she obtained through a ruse, a state court has decided. (Dan Gleiter/ PennLive)
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A woman can’t keep a $4.15 million winning lottery ticket because she employed a ruse to get it from the supermarket where she worked, a Pennsylvania Superior Court panel ruled Tuesday.
Instead, the judges found the Acme store that Beverlie Seltzer worked for is the rightful owner of that ticket and the riches it entails.
The case hinges on how the Acme store in Doylestown handles Pennsylvania lottery tickets that are printed by mistake from the automated terminal the state Lottery Commission placed in the business, Judge Mary Jane Bowes noted in the state court’s opinion.
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A Blair County judge has ruled that evidence of possible drug violations obtained by police during a search last May of a room in an area motel cannot be used against the Altoona man who was eventually charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The decision by Judge Jackie Atherton Bernard effectively ends the case against 33-year-old Tracey Kerry Serrano Jr., who claimed the marijuana found by Logan Township police in his room at the Rodeway Inn, 1500 Sterling St., was medically prescribed.
But the marijuana found in the motel room was not the reason why police went to the inn at 3 a.m. on May 15.
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