A second Pennsylvania appellate court judge, Deborah Kunselman, is running for an open seat on the state Supreme Court in next November’s election. Kunselman, a Democrat, said Thursday that she'll seek her party's nomination for the 10-year term.
HARRISBURG — A second Pennsylvania appellate court judge, Deborah Kunselman, said Thursday she will run for an open seat on the state Supreme Court in next November’s election. Kunselman, a Democrat, serves on the state Superior Court. Kunselman, 55, was endorsed in the primary by the Democratic Party when she
Drunken customer charged with groping female Lyft driver can’t take a detour out of prison, Pa. court says
Updated May 10, 2021;
A state appeals court panel has refused to void the prison sentence imposed on a drunken customer who was charged with groping a female Lyft driver.
That 9- to 24-month jail term was imposed after Terah Odoi, 35, of Erie, pleaded no contest to an indecent assault charge filed over the September 2018 incident in Wilkes Barre. The state Superior Court took on the case when Odoi appealed a Luzerne County judge’s refusal to allow him to withdraw his plea.
Pa. man who shot and killed next-door neighbor after years-long dispute can’t beat life prison sentence
Updated 5:05 PM;
A Pennsylvania man who shot and killed his next-door neighbor after years of bad blood between the two deserves the life prison sentence he is serving for the slaying, a state appeals court panel decided Friday.
The fact that Clayton Carter III fired a second shot into his neighbor’s head as the wounded man was lying on the ground didn’t help his claim that his first-degree murder conviction isn’t justified.
Nor did the conclusion reached by investigators that Carter planted a knife beside the dead man so he could claim he fired in self-defense.