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Employees in the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office aren’t being paid enough, staff said at a county council budget hearing on Thursday.
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A vigil was held to remember Jim Rogers, who died in a hospital a day after police shocked him with a Taser.
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Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court reverses a decision by a lower court that sided with the District Attorney.
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A state disciplinary board publicly reprimanded Pittsburgh defense attorney Milton Raiford last week for harming two clients who he declined to represent in 2021. Raiford withdrew from one of the cases due to his public feud with Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: University of Pittsburgh law professor David Harris explains why the convening of a grand jury to investigate the death of Jim Rogers might uncover new information; a local pharmacy is cutting out the middleman to sell low-cost prescriptions to consumers without the use of health insurance; and we meet an Algerian human rights advocate and dissident who relocated to Pittsburgh last month after fleeing government persecution.
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It’s been nearly three months since Jim Rogers died in the hospital after police shocked him with a Taser. Now, some local church groups are calling for Attorney General Josh Shapiro to get involved in the case.
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Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. sued Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro Thursday over a national opioid settlement, contending that the deal shorts the county of money it should get for costs associated with opioid addiction.
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Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala appears to have walked back his policy forbidding plea deals for the clients of a lawyer who called his office racist.
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Legal experts say that in addition to threatening defendants' rights, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. arguably violated his duty to represent county residents by telling local prosecutors to withhold plea offers from an attorney who called his office racist.
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Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. defended his decision to deny plea deals to clients of a lawyer who called his office systemically racist.