Fifteen people will face each other in November’s general election to win a seat on Allegheny County’s Court of Common Pleas, according to unofficial elections results reported late Tuesday. With nine vacancies out of 43 positions on the bench, this year’s judicial election has a chance to change the makeup
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No-knock warrants will be banned in Pittsburgh and solitary confinement will be restricted at Allegheny County Jail after voters overwhelmingly approved two ballot questions in Tuesday’s election.
Voters petitioned to add the questions to the ballot and they had broad support from both city and county residents, according to Brandi Fisher, who leads the Pittsburgh-based Alliance for Police Accountability.
“There was an overwhelming response from people who wanted these to be passed,” Fisher said.
The no-knock warrant ballot question was limited to voters in Pittsburgh. It amends the city’s charter to ban city police from serving a warrant without announcing themselves.
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Allegheny County and Pittsburgh voters will be asked to decide separate criminal justice issues on ballot questions in the May 18 primary.
If approved, the ballot questions would ban Pittsburgh police from serving warrants without announcing themselves and the use of solitary confinement would be restricted at Allegheny County Jail.
The measures had broad support from city and county residents, Brandi Fisher, who leads the Pittsburgh-based Alliance for Police Accountability, said.
“There was an overwhelming response from people who wanted these to be passed,” Fisher said.
Cyril Wecht has never been one to hold his tongue.
When the former Allegheny County coroner and county commissioner is bothered by something, he speaks his mind. The same holds true for his recently published memoir, “The Life and Deaths of Cyril Wecht: Memoirs of America’s Most Controversial Forensic Pathologist.”
The book, written by Wecht and Jeff Sewald, is a no-holds-barred account of his personal and professional life starting with his humble Hill District beginnings. It takes the reader through many of the high-profile cases he’s been involved with – O.J. Simpson, Kurt Cobain, the Menendez Brothers, Scott Peterson, Chandra Levy, Elvis Presley and Jeffrey Epstein, among others.
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