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Kenneth J. Piner, an Altoona man serving a lengthy prison sentence for his part in a cocaine ring that operated in the Altoona area more than a decade ago, has lost his attempt to have a new hearing in his case based on a recent report issued by the Blair County branch of the NAACP […]
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has rejected a petition by a former Altoona man who is serving a prison term of 15 to 30 years for the sexual abuse of several c
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An Altoona man, who continued to fight drug charges filed against him in 2010 even though he had already completed his prison sentence, has now lost his appeal before the Pennsylvania Superior Court.
Shawn Edward Gibson, who appeared before Blair County Judge Daniel J. Milliron last year concerning his release on bail from the State Correctional Institution at Pine Grove, said he was continuing with his appeal before the Superior Court because, “I want to clear my name.”
He maintained that he shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.
Milliron had already indicated that Gibson was entitled to be resentenced on his charges based on a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, known as the Alleyne case, that found Pennsylvania’s mandatory sentencing laws unconstitutional.
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The Pennsylvania Superior Court late last week upheld a decision by Blair County Judge Daniel J. Milliron in which he awarded attorney fees and interest amounting to more than $274,000 in a civil case involving a plaintiff who died in 2014.
In making his ruling in 2019, Milliron found that an insurance company had acted in “bad faith” and “with a purpose motivated by self interest” in its handling of a claim by an Altoona woman who suffered severe injuries in a motor vehicle accident that occurred along Logan Boulevard more than 20 years ago.
Milliron’s decision also indicated his support for an arbitration award of nearly $600,000 received by the women’s estate.