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Relationship between the U.S. Constitution and the Pennsylvania Constitution. The US Supreme Court's interpretation of the Fourth Amendment do not control the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's interpretation of the protections under Article I § 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Edmunds, 586 A.2d 887 (1991). In fact ...
The Commonwealth Court's headquarters is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with jurisdiction over administrative and civil public law. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania is the other intermediate appellate court in the Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System, having jurisdiction over criminal and private civil cases. The jurisdiction of the nine-judge ...
Murder in Pennsylvania law constitutes the intentional killing, under circumstances defined by law, of people within or under the jurisdiction of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania . The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in the year 2020, the state had a murder rate somewhat above the median for the entire country.
Pennsylvania Route 430 ( PA 430) (also known by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as SR 0430) is a 13.70-mile-long (22.05 km) state highway located in Erie County, Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at US 20 in Wesleyville. The eastern terminus is the New York state line near Findley Lake, New York .
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes. Purdon’s Pennsylvania Statutes and Constitution. Genre. Statute. Publisher. Thomson West until 2008. Thomson Reuters since 2008. Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes is an unofficial consolidation of the statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America. [1]
Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic was a state-run institution for mentally and physically disabled individuals of Southeastern Pennsylvania located in Spring City. [4] After 79 years of controversy, it closed on December 9, 1987.
Capital punishment in Pennsylvania. Capital punishment is a legal punishment in Pennsylvania. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Pennsylvania since 1999, and only three since 1976 (all occurring in the 1990s, during the governorship of Tom Ridge ). In February 2015, Governor Tom Wolf announced a formal ...
The Pennsylvania attorney general is the chief law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It became an elected office in 1980. [ 1] The current attorney general is Democrat Michelle Henry . On August 15, 2016, then-Attorney General Kathleen Kane was convicted of criminal charges, including conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction ...