Category: Guns
Recently, a car crash turned into a violent incident involving at least ten gunshots. A man crashed into a vehicle with two women and a 5-year-old child. Both drivers got out of their vehicles and began arguing. A bystander tried to intervene, but the driver who…
CASE REVIEW: Commonwealth v. Smerconish, 2015 PA Super 59. In Smerconish, the Appellant had been involuntarily committed because he was suicidal. He attempted to have his firearm rights restored. In order to have his rights restored, he needed to have his involuntary commitment expunged. Appellants expungement was denied….
CASE REVIEW: Commonwealth v. Bavusa, 832 A.2d 1042 (2003). Bavusa is a case that doesn’t make any sense to me, but for some reason, we see it come up all the time in Philadelphia County Criminal Court. The ruling is logically inconsistent, which is surprising because Chief Justice Castille…
Update on Mandatory Minimums Is there an update on mandatory minimums in Pennsylvania? Yes. On August 20, 2014, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, sitting en banc, published their decision in Commonwealth v. Newman, 2014 PA Super 178. The opinion was written by Judge Ford Elliot and it gets…
In my gun case, the government is trying to bring into evidence that I was previously convicted (twice) of possessing a firearm illegally. My defense in my current gun case is that I did not possess the gun. I am not arguing in my gun case…
