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TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. 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. ....
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. An attorney for the Pennsylvania Parole Board argued Monday that Commonwealth Court is not the right place to hear a challenge to the state’s mandatory life-without-parole penalty for second-degree murder. Six people serving that sentence filed a petition against the state Board of Probation and Parole in July, arguing that punishment is unconstitutional and violates the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. In Pennsylvania, about 1,100 people are serving life without parole for second-degree, or felony, murder, which is the death of someone during the commission of a crime. That includes 152 people from Allegheny County and nine from Westmoreland County. ....
The owner of Brentwood’s Crack’d Egg restaurant has filed a motion for a stay pending an appeal to Commonwealth Court. The motion filed Friday said that a decision by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John McVay last week is contrary to a federal court ruling in September that found Gov. ....
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Port Authority of Allegheny County on Friday filed a motion seeking to stay a federal court injunction while it appeals the decision that found prohibiting employees from wearing Black Lives Matter masks was unconstitutional. In the filing, the agency wrote that the court “disregarded Port Authority’s interest in protecting its captive customers from political or social protest messages.” The appeal will go to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The authority implemented a uniform policy prohibiting employees from wearing masks “of a political or social protest nature” following widespread protests over the death of George Floyd in May. Weeks later, after increased scrutiny by employees and community protests, the authority implemented an even more restrictive policy, ....
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TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The owner of the Brentwood restaurant ordered to comply with covid-19 masking orders said in a Facebook Live video Wednesday night that “it is not over by a long shot.” Kimberly Waigand told those watching that she was not backing down, but she would not break the law. “We’re going to keep up the good fight,” she said with the Tom Petty song “I Won’t Back Down” playing in the background. “We’re not backing down.” ....