When Lena Bryan-Henderson was growing up in Wilkinsburg in the 1970s, her family dinner conversations frequently revolved around civil rights. “It was table talk every evening almost — about the prejudices and the injustices that people who look like me had to endure,” she said. Then, when she was about
The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday withdrew charges against a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy in 2001. The paperwork dismissing the case against the Rev. Hugh Lang, 92, said it was being done in the best interest of the alleged victim. Lang was a
The defense attorney for a man found guilty of killing the Jefferson Hills Motel owner in 2016 believes his client was denied a fair trial because jurors watched a 17-minute, videotaped police interview of the man wearing a jail uniform. Derrick Gallaway, 65, was found guilty of first-degree murder in
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Allegheny County Common Pleas President Judge Kim Berkeley Clark
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President Judge Kim Berkeley Clark said in an open letter posted on the court’s website that it is time for Allegheny County’s judicial system to recognize systemic racism and work to combat it.
The longtime prosecutor turned family court judge posted the letter to the community on Thursday the eve of Juneteenth National Freedom Day with the goal of engaging citizens and reassuring them that they will be treated fairly in the court system.
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A Washington County man who was convicted of killing an elderly Upper St. Clair woman in 2003 and given the death penalty will get a new sentencing hearing.
Patrick Stollar, 42, appeared on a video screen from prison during a brief hearing on Thursday before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge David R. Cashman.
His attorney, Thomas N. Farrell, argued that Cashman failed to give the jury in Stollar’s 2008 trial the proper instruction regarding his lack of any previous criminal convictions before it began deliberating his sentence. He was sentenced to die by lethal injection. Acknowledging the error, the prosecution conceded to the new penalty hearing.