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In an opinion Thursday, the Pennsylvania Superior Court let stand the conviction and lengthy prison sentence imposed on the purported leader of a heroin distribution ring.
Luis Bernal, 42, who is incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, Centre County, was sentenced by Huntingdon County Senior Judge Stewart L. Kurtz to 16 to 32 years behind bars after a jury convicted him on charges of possession with intent to deliver, participating in a corrupt organization, conspiracy, criminal use of a communication facility and dealing in the proceeds of unlawful activities.
Bernal’s girlfriend, Jacquita Kiernan, who moved from New York City with Bernal in 2012, pleaded guilty for her role in the organization.
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Atty Who Trolled Santander Bank Off Hook For Billboard Cost
Law360 (January 13, 2021, 10:37 PM EST) A Pennsylvania Superior Court on Wednesday affirmed a trial court s decision to absolve a criminal defense attorney from paying an outdoor advertising company for a full month to display a billboard taunting Santander Bank after the advertisement was pulled after just a few days.
In a 19-page opinion authored by Judge Mary Jane Bowes, the panel unanimously found that a contract between attorney A. Charles Peruto Jr. and billboard publisher Catalyst Outdoor Advertising LLC clearly contained a provision allowing Peruto to pay on a per-day basis to display his advertisement.
If the store holds a winning ticket in the mistake pile, it is entitled to claim the winnings.
Seltzer arrived at her Acme shift at the customer service desk a few hours after the transaction that produced the mistake ticket. The Match 6 drawing occurred at 7 p.m. About an hour later, Seltzer scanned through the mistake pile and found the winning ticket, a practice she had done in the past.
Instead of leaving the ticket to be processed by the store coordinator, Seltzer took $10 from her purse and rang up a transaction for the same price as the customer s original, canceled purchase of the tickets. She was still on the clock at the time and never consulted with anyone at Acme about purchasing the mistake ticket. She signed the back of the ticket and submitted it to the Pennsylvania Lottery.
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PENNSYLVANIA A state superior court has ruled in favor of Acme Markets claim to a $4.15 million winning lottery ticket that went unsold before being purchased by a store employee after the winning numbers had already been announced.
In a ruling issued Dec. 15, Judge Mary Jane Bowes dismissed an appeal filed by Beverlie Seltzer, a former longtime employee at the Doylestown Acme, who argued that she was the purchaser and therefore sole proprietor of the winning ticket.
The case dates back to March 21, 2019, when a customer walked into the Doylestown grocery store and requested five PA Match 6 tickets. The cashier used the lottery terminal to print one ticket with five sets of numbers on it, with each set costing $2. After reviewing the ticket, the customer rejected it and asked Acme to print five separate tickets for him, and the rejected ticket was added to a pile of mistake tickets that are kept by the store as a matter of policy, according to court docu
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DOYLESTOWN, PA A state superior court has ruled in favor of Acme Markets claim to a $4.15 million winning lottery ticket that went unsold before being purchased by a store employee after the winning numbers had already been announced.
In a ruling issued Dec. 15, Judge Mary Jane Bowes dismissed an appeal filed by Beverlie Seltzer, a former longtime employee at the Doylestown Acme, who argued that she was the purchaser and therefore sole proprietor of the winning ticket.
The case dates back to March 21, 2019, when a customer walked into the Doylestown grocery store and requested five PA Match 6 tickets. The cashier used the lottery terminal to print one ticket with five sets of numbers on it, with each set costing $2. After reviewing the ticket, the customer rejected it and asked Acme to print five separate tickets for him, and the rejected ticket was added to a pile of mistake tickets that are kept by the stor