An Allegheny County judge on Wednesday said he will not allow the district attorney’s office to seat a death-penalty qualified jury because of the ongoing moratorium on capital punishment in Pennsylvania. Judge Anthony M. Mariani wrote in a 10-page opinion that compelling prospective jurors to sit through the “grueling and
The Allegheny County District Attorney’s office has filed a motion to detain a well-known Pittsburgh activist after it said she made threatening Facebook posts against police officers following the Jan. 2 killing of Brackenridge police Chief Justin McIntire. “A pig died tonight,” Nicky Jo Dawson wrote. “They want us to
Surrounded by hundreds of people representing many of Pittsburgh’s labor unions, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. on Friday announced he will seek a seventh term in office. Zappala, a Democrat from Fox Chapel, made the announcement at the Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Christmas party in the Champions
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