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The state Supreme Court has struck down amendments to the
Pennsylvania hate crime law that extended protections based
on physical or mental disability, sexual orientation,
ancestry and gender. "Having been arrested, jailed and
charged with a 'hate crime' for preaching the Gospel, I am
elated that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the lower
court's ruling in striking down Pennsylvania's expanded
'hate crimes' law," said Lansdowne evangelist Michael
Marcavage. Along with six other member of his Repent America
organization, Marcavage sued a handful of state officials,
including Gov. Ed Rendell, claiming the law was passed in
violation of the Pennsylvania Constitution. The Commonwealth
Court sided with Marcavage and his fellow petitioners in
November. (More)
The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that struck down
Washington, D.C.'s 32-year-old handgun ban filed a new
federal lawsuit Monday, alleging the city's new gun
regulations still violate an individual's right to own a gun
for self-defense. Dick Heller and two other plaintiffs argue
that the city's regulations are "highly unusual and
unreasonable" in the complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
The lawsuit claims the District of Columbia continues to
violate the intent of the Supreme Court's June 26 decision
by prohibiting the ownership of most semiautomatic weapons,
requiring an "arbitrary" fee to register a firearm and
establishing rules that make it all but impossible for
residents to keep a gun in the home for immediate
self-defense. (More)
(Greensburg) - Attorneys want a Westmoreland County judge
to expunge criminal charges a state senator faced after a
teenage neighbor was found fatally shot with the senator's
gun. Robert Regola, a freshman Republican running for
re-election, was acquitted of perjury and other charges July
11. District Attorney John Peck charged Regola lied about
how he stored the gun and whether it was ever kept in his
son Bobby's room. Bobby's friend, 14-year-old Louis Farrell,
was found shot to death behind their neighboring homes two
years ago. A coroner ruled the shooting a suicide. Regola's
attorney Duke George says the judge is being asked to erase
all records of Regola's arrest, including his mug shot and
fingerprints. (More)
For being a traitorous friend, Stacey Torrance was thrown
into jail for life. Torrance was just 14 when an older
cousin convinced him in 1988 to lure a rich kid to a North
Philadelphia corner, where the cousin and an accomplice
kidnapped and later shot and strangled him. Torrance didn't
kill 16-year-old Alexander Porter and insisted he never knew
of his cousin's murderous intent. But 20 years later, he
sits in a state prison in Chester, with no prospect for
parole or eventual freedom. Such cases concern lawmakers
like state Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, R-Montco-Bucks, who said
he began to question the system's fairness when he learned
that Pennsylvania leads the nation in the number of
juveniles sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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Just two weeks after prosecutors were appalled to
discover that investigators' cell-phone records quietly had
been given to a defense attorney in a Poconos criminal case,
Sprint Nextel said it would no longer provide that
information directly to lawyers. Also, a state lawmaker
announced legislation that would ban the practice for all
phone records. The phone company announced its policy after
days of angry comments from prosecutors and police across
the state. Sprint Nextel said records subpoenaed in the
future would be sent to a judge. "Then it would be up to the
court to distribute the records," Sprint Nextel spokesman
Matt Sullivan said. Other cell-phone companies said that has
been their practice. (More)
(Harrisburg) - Ralph Nader said that he would ask the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reopen a case connected with
the Democrats' successful challenge to his 2004 presidential
nomination petition. Nader, who ran as an independent, said
he wanted the court to reconsider its order that he pay
$81,000 in court costs, in light of new evidence resulting
from a state grand jury investigation that led to the
indictment of 12 people, including a current House lawmaker
and a former House Democratic leader. "According to the
grand jury, millions of dollars in taxpayer funds, resources
and state employees were illegally used for political
campaign purposes - including to remove the Nader-Camejo
ticket from the ballot," Nader said at a news conference
here. (More)
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