Kunselman | PA Courts
HARRISBURG – The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently reversed a decision reached by a Berks County court, which had opened a default judgment against an animal sanctuary and transferred rights and title to eight horses, into the hands of a non-party to the original case.
Superior Court judges Anne E. Lazarus, Deborah A. Kunselman and Mary P. Murray
ruled on May 7 that litigation between Rivers End Animal Sanctuary and Learning Center, Inc. and Derbe Eckhart would continue in the Berks County Court of Common Pleas, after it opened and vacated an ill-supported motion for default judgment.
Kunselman authored the Court’s opinion.
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A former inmate of the State Correctional Institution at Smithfield in Huntingdon County has failed to convince the Pennsylvania Superior Court that he found newly-discovered, exculpatory evidence in his case, which involved the aggravated assault of corrections officers during a 2013 melee at the prison.
Huntingdon County Common Pleas Court Judge George N. Zanic sentenced Ronald Terell Stockton, now 33, to an additional 27 to 100 months behind bars after the inmate was found guilty of aggravated assault of the officers.
Stockton was originally sentenced to a prison term of 10 to 20 years for robberies that occurred in Philadelphia County.
His Huntingdon County sentence is to be served consecutive to the Philadelphia County sentence.
Murray | PA Courts
HARRISBURG – A panel trio of judges from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania decided that a Franklin County court correctly dismissed a negligence case against the estate of a deceased man involved in a motor vehicle accident, when it was shown that an attempt to amend the complaint was made after the relevant statute of limitations had expired.
Superior Court judges Anne E. Lazarus, Deborah A. Kunselman and Mary P. Murray
ruled on April 13 to uphold the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas’s decision, in Jeffrey and Ann Yorty’s action against Allison B. Kohler (deceased in care of surviving spouse, Jo Ann Kohler.)
Husband convicted of killing wife 30 years after her murder can’t escape life prison term
Updated 1:36 PM;
A Pennsylvania man who was convicted of killing his wife 30 years after her corpse was found in her burning car failed Tuesday to convince a state appeals court panel that his lawyer was incompetent.
That Superior Court ruling means John D. Dawson, now 71, will keep serving a life prison term for the November 1981 slaying of Kathleen Dawson in Somerset County’s Conemagh Township.
Kathleen Dawson, 31, was last seen alive when she left work at Windber Hospital on the night of Nov. 9, 1981. She never made it home.
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