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The Deadliest Drug in Pennsylvania December 22, 2017 | Category: Drug Defense When we talk about the opioid crisis, the conversation normally focuses around heroin. You may not have ever heard of the drug fentanyl before. Despite the lack of conversation, fentanyl...
K2 and Bath Salts August 20, 2018 | Category: Criminal Law, Drug Defense In 2017, there were 158 reported K2 overdoses in Lancaster, Pennsylvania over the course of just one week. Again, in May 2018, the city experienced an upswing of reported K2 overdoses. In...
Designer and synthetic drugs remain tremendously popular in many regions of Pennsylvania. The drugs are attractive to users because they offer extreme highs at a lower price. Additionally, some of these synthetic drugs do not register on traditional drug tests. That...
New Opioid Legislation Passes Through House July 25, 2018 | Category: Drug Defense It is no secret that heroin, fentanyl, and other synthetic opioids have greatly impacted our nation's public health. In both 2016 and 2017, opioid overdoses nearly single-handedly...
Over the summer, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the existing law that imposes mandatory minimum sentencing for anyone charged with delivering or possessing with intent to deliver drugs near a school zone. Originally, the minimum sentence requirement was...
As a criminal defense attorney, I have represented countless people charged with crimes ranging from very minor offenses to violent felonies. In almost all cases, I will have to answer questions put to me by my clients about the way they were treated by the police....
Quite simply, the answer is no. While a growing number of US States now permit the use, distribution and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes and a few states, notably Washington and Colorado, have even legalized the recreational use of marijuana, marijuana...
When the police ask me if they can search my person/bag/car/home, do I have to let them? Absolutely not. As a criminal defense attorney here in State College, Pennsylvania, I have represented countless individuals who have been charged with the possession of illegal...
As a criminal defense attorney working in mostly rural Central Pennsylvania, I am constantly face-to-face with the heroin epidemic that is affecting both cities and small communities around the country. Recently, I was speaking to a Pennsylvania State Police officer...
Do I have to stop and talk to police when they ask me to? Yes and no (but often the answer is no) To answer this question, one must be familiar with some basic legal concepts related to the law of "seizure," a concept derived directly from the text of the Fourth...