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Harvard’s “Oddities Collector” Gets Probation After Unlawful Trafficking in Human Body Parts

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Attorney’s Office of the Middle District of Pennsylvania. When police went to his house, Pauley told officers that collected “oddities” and that he had 15 to 20 human skulls he had legally purchased in his possession. Scott even used Facebook Messenger to send pictures of her inventory including a brain and the heart.

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Why Police are ‘Natural Allies’ in the Fight Against Drug Abuse

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The harm reduction organization Eleyvst , the Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance (PRO-A) , and the data firm RIWI sought to do just that with their new, ambitious public opinion survey. And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

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The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. Now police are reportedly considering criminal charges against passengers who filmed the rape and did not call the police. 316, 155 A.2d

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“God is Not the Author of Confusion”: Charges Dropped Against Protester Who Read Biblical Passages at Pride Event

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YouTube The Berks County District Attorney’s Office has confirmed that it is dropping charges against Damon Atkins after the preacher was arrested citing the Bible in protest of an LGBTQ Pride event in Reading, Pennsylvania. Ironically, Atkins was reciting 1 Corinthians 14:33 that begins “For God is not the author of confusion.”

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Probation Puts Drug Offenders at Greater Risk of Returning to Prison: Paper

The Crime Report

The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. He studies criminal law, criminal procedure, and sentencing.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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But he became the center of a political firestorm after he told the court that it should not affirm the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who was found guilty of possessing sexually explicit videotapes of minors. Even if she had never become a judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have been a giant of the legal profession. The George H.W.

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Trump Attorney Accuses The President Of Criminal Conduct In His Withdrawal of Representation

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Philadelphia-based attorney Jerome Marcus told the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that he was withdrawing because President Trump used him, and his election challenge, to “perpetuate a crime.” In fairness to Marcus, one of the grounds for withdrawal is a criminal enterprise.