KRMF partner David Rudovsky has authored an article in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review addressing the constitutionality of the police stop-and-frisk practices at issue in the cases of Floyd v. City of New York and Bailey v. City of Philadelphia.  The article, part of the Law Review’s debate series, involves a spirited back-and-forth between Mr. […]
KRMF clients Eugene Gilyard and Lance Felder, who were granted new trials on October 8, were ordered released on bail today. Â As noted earlier, Gilyard and Felder, have been incarcerated for 15 years for a murder they did not commit. Â After Common Pleas Judge Rose Marie Defino-Nastasi ordered that they receive a new trial, the
In a lengthy decision announced from the bench on October 8, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Rose Marie Defino-Nastasi granted a new trial for KRMF clients Eugene Gilyard and Lance Felder. Â Both men have been in prison since 1998, when they were arrested and convicted for the 1995 murder and robbery of a North Philadelphia
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In a decision issued on September 25, 2013, a U.S. District Court Judge has denied defense motions to dismiss KRMF’s complaint filed on behalf of the family members of the deceased Patricia Pollock. Â As detailed earlier, the lawsuit alleges that medical staff at Montgomery County Correctional Facility ignored Ms. Pollock’s obvious symptoms of bacterial endocarditis,
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As reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer, KRMF partner David Rudovsky and co-counsel Len Sosnov successfully obtained freedom for 73-year-old Milton Scarborough, who had served 36 years of a 30-60 year sentence.  Scarborough, who was convicted in 1977 for the murder of a central Pennsylvania family, has maintained his innocence since the time of his arrest. The only
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David Rudovsky and Jules Epstein, along with lawyers from the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, have spent the week in a hearing in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to demonstrate that their clients, Eugene Gilyard and Robert Felder, did not commit the 1995 murder for which they were both convicted. The conviction was based primarily on
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As reported on WHYY, KRMF has initiated a lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Patricia Ann Pollock, who died at the age of 25 while incarcerated for less than five days in 2011 at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. Â The suit claims that Ms. Pollock entered the facility with an illness that was
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As widely reported in local media, attorneys for the plaintiffs in Bailey et al. v. City of Philadelphia et al. released yesterday a comprehensive monitoring report on the Philadelphia Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices.  The Report focused on stop and frisk practices for the first half of 2012 — a time period that, significantly, came after the Police
KRMF partner David Rudovsky was a guest on WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane on March 7, 2013, discussing the important civil rights implications of cell phone videos taken of police in the performance of their duties.  Topics of discussion included the February 27, 2013, Municipal Court verdict acquitting a Philadelphia police lieutenant of all charges
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A jury in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas returned not guilty verdicts yesterday for all twelve defendants arrested during the course of an Occupy Philly political demonstration at a Wells Fargo bank branch on November 18, 2011.  KRMF partner Jonathan Feinberg joined with six other Philadelphia lawyers — Paul Hetznecker, Mike Lee, Leo Mulvihill, Marni
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