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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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When Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala issued his conclusion that the 2018 fatal police shooting of Mark Daniels was a “justified use of force,” his written analysis repeatedly cited a ShotSpotter report he said had “determined that Daniels fired the initial two shots” at the officers. But a recently filed deposition by a ShotSpotter engineer in a federal civil lawsuit brought by Daniels’ family shows the report did not include that information.
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District Attorney Stephen Zappala could face ethics charges; Pittsburgh Public Schools hopes to find an ally in presumptive mayor-elect Ed Gainey; and Pennsylvania's upgraded unemployment system had a rocky start.
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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.
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Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala drew swift condemnation Wednesday in the wake of a report that he had ordered local prosecutors to deny plea deals to a Black criminal defense attorney who accused the DA’s office of systemic racism.
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Charges against two dozen protesters from last summer's demonstrations against police brutality are being refiled, but Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and…
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The family of Marcus White, a 15-month-old boy who died in a 2013 East Hills shooting, called for the state to step in to prosecute their case Tuesday.…