May 31, 2023
I knew that the Pennsylvania PD was not the best with civil rights back in the 1980s….
Feb 16, 2023
The woman alleged it was part of a pattern of sexual misconduct in which homicide Detective Donald Suchinsky targeted victims to take advantage of their desire for justice and his position of power.
May 2, 2022
A longtime teacher at Parkway Center City High School assaulted a student over four years at the school, despite warnings that the teacher had abused another student, a recently filed civil suit says.
January 27, 2022
Willie Stokes, 60—the state’s longest incarcerated exoneree—was released from the Chester State Correctional Institution on Jan. 4 after serving 37 years for the 1980 murder of Leslie Campbell, which he did not commit, said his attorneys Joshua Van Naarden and Julia Ronnebaum of Van Naarden Spizer Chase and Pinto.
January 6, 2022
Willie Stokes will be released unless the Philadelphia DA is able to retry him within 120 days. The DA admitted that illegally suppressed evidence “fatally undermines confidence” in his conviction.
January 5, 2022
The trial witness was charged with perjury just days after Willie Stokes was convicted of murder in 1984.
January 5, 2022
A Philadelphia man was freed from prison Tuesday after 37 years in a case marred by detectives who allegedly offered a witness sex and drugs at police headquarters in 1983 in exchange for false testimony.
January 4, 2022
A Philadelphia man walked out of prison on Monday, 37 years after he was convicted of murdering a woman, an accusation he has vehemently denied, and after a federal court found prosecutors suppressed evidence of false testimony given by a key witness, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office said.
January 4, 2022
Willie Stokes, freed from a life sentence after 27 years, was ready to hug his mom and get a corned beef hoagie Tuesday when he walked out of a state prison.
January 4, 2022
A federal judge vacated a 1984 murder conviction of a Willie Stokes who had been serving a life sentence in a Philadelphia slaying.
January 4, 2022
A Pennsylvania man is free after a federal court threw out his 1984 murder conviction. Willie Stokes walked out of the state correctional institution in Chester, Delaware County Tuesday afternoon.”
October 7, 2021
The attorneys of VSCP LAW discuss the firm’s background and practice of catastrophic injury work
September 15, 2021
The city jails changed their release policy after the March killing of Rodney Hargrove. His parents claim negligence and indifference contributed to his death.
September 15, 2021
Relatives of 20-year-old Rodney Hargrove Jr. want answers about how and why their son was murdered.
December 29, 2020
If it wasn’t for the fact that he was so adamant, and pushed so hard for his innocence, then…
May 17, 2021
PHILADELPHIA — Donald Outlaw had already spent 15 years in prison for murder when he found…
February 19, 2021
An elderly Lehigh Valley woman attacked at Wind Creek Bethlehem casino and then kidnapped was…
March 17, 2021
PHILADELPHIA — Donald Outlaw had already spent 15 years in prison for murder when he found…
February 22, 2021
The woman who was assaulted and kidnapped during a 2019 robbery at the Wind Creek…
February 11, 2021
The justices will have a chance to review the Pennsylvania Superior Court’s determination that the…
May 12, 2021
The man severely njured in a triple shooting outside a Wilkes Barre club earlier this year…
May 14, 2021
WILKES-BARRE — The only survivor of three men who were shot outside Bo’s on Main in…