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Because incarcerated individuals cannot seek their own medical treatment, it is up to prison staff to ensure that injured or ill inmates get the care they need. Inmates have a right to adequate medical treatment. It is unlawful for prison staff to deny it. If an…
Did the Philadelphia police stop and search you without reason or cause? Did they use excessive force when apprehending or detaining you? The stop and frisk attorneys in Philadelphia at The Zeiger Firm understand what you are going through and are here to provide the aggressive…
There are no bail bondsmen in Philadelphia. The court system, in its own way, acts as a bondsman. An individual need only post ten percent of the total bail, and he or she will be released. (If bail is ten thousand, one thousand in cash gets you…
A distinguished lawyer call our office this morning to discuss a previous post on summary offenses, where the reader could interpret our post to mean that summary offenses are not crimes. He stated that under Commonwealth v. Matty, 619 A.2d 1383 (Pa. Super. 1993), certain summary offenses are…
As a defense attorney in Philadelphia, I receive a great many questions regarding summary appeals, so I thought I should write about summary appeals as a review. Understand what is written in this post is not meant to include Philadelphia county. In Philadelphia county my answers would…
Civil rights attorneys serve an important role by helping people whose constitutional rights have been violated. They are an integral safeguard in our society and ensure that when the government has overstepped its bounds, someone is holding them accountable. Civil rights violations are often committed by…
Prisoner Rights Recently, a report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights revealed that the nation’s prisons have failed to manage the growth of the female prison population to protect incarcerated women’s rights. The report shows women disproportionately experience physical and psychological harms while incarcerated and…
The law grants immense power to police officers. Under certain circumstances, they have the authority to detain you, to arrest you, and to search your person, your home, your car, and your belongings. In some situations, they even have the right to use deadly force against…
Pennsylvania law permits police officers to use force against citizens while acting in the line of duty. While making an arrest, for instance, an officer “is justified in the use of any force which he believes to be necessary to effect the arrest and of any force…
From 1941 to 1945, the government used posters to remind citizens that careless comments, no matter how innocent or unassuming they may be, could prove useful to the enemy. One World War II poster showed a fish with his mouth open, about to be hooked by an…
