Pennsylvania’s highest court has ruled that a man charged with distributing child pornography does not have to tell police his computer password.
Amelia Kittredge ith the Office of Disciplinary Counsel told the state Supreme Court in Harrisburg that Frank Fina violated a rule against prosecutors issuing subpoenas without a judge’s approval to get information from lawyers about their current or former clients.
Pennsylvania’s court system is telling county judges to make public information about candidates when filling government vacancies by appointment.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined a special petition to review the constitutionality of the death penalty but says it will still consider the fairness of individual cases.
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory sentences of life without parole for all juveniles were unconstitutional.
Only three people have been executed in Pennsylvania since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978, the last of them in 1999. Meanwhile, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf put a moratorium on executions when he took office in 2015.
