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Will 12th Juror Flap Keep Chaka Out Of Jail?
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netLawyers for former U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah are arguing that he should stay out of jail while an appeals court considers whether Judge Harvey Bartle III abused his...
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Judge's Argument For Dismissing 12th Juror Doesn't Hold Water
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netWhen he explained why he dismissed a dissident juror in the Chaka Fattah case, U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III advanced an argument that no longer holds...
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Defense Lawyers Pound Away At "Rash, Unmethodical" Judge Bartle; Feds Respond...
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netLawyers for two of Chaka Fattah's co-defendants have joined the chorus seeking to have their clients stay out of jail while a federal appeals court considers the...
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Lead Detective In "Billy Doe" Case Didn't Believe Billy
Former ADA Mariana Sorensen [left] By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netThe lead detective in the "Billy Doe" sex abuse case didn't find the former altar boy to be a credible witness after he spent hours...
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Archdiocese-D.A. Hearing Moved To Friday
A scheduled hearing that may feature retired Detective Joseph Walsh testifying against former Assistant District Attorney Mariana Sorensen has been moved from 2 p.m. Wednesday to 11 a.m. Friday.At the...
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Battle Over 12th Juror Continues With Two Fattah Co-Defendants
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netIn a battle over whether two co-defendants of former U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah are entitled to bail while they appeal their convictions, defense lawyers claim that...
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Lanny Davis Seeking Presidential Pardon For Chaka Fattah
Davis and friendBy Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netHe may have lost a bail motion today, but former U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah still has one long shot left to stay out of jail -- a request for a...
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"You're Killing My Case"
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netOn the witness stand today, retired Detective Joe Walsh detailed numerous inconsistencies in the many contrary stories told by Danny Gallagher, the former altar boy who...
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Report: Nicodemo Scarfo Has Died In Prison
By George AnastasiaFor BigTrial.netNicodemo D. “Little Nicky” Scarfo, who ruled the Philadelphia mob in the 1980s with a temperament and philosophy more suited to the 1920s, has died in a federal...
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More on the passing of Nicky ScarfoBy George Anastasiahttp://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Tyrannical-Philly-Mafia-boss-Nicodemo-Little-Nicky-Scarfo-dies-in-prison-hospital.html
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SNAP Lawsuit Alleges Kickbacks, Collusion With Plaintiff's Lawyers
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netA lawsuit filed in Chicago by a former employee of the Survivors Network of Those Abused By Priests [SNAP] alleges that the nonprofit's top officials routinely accepted...
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Farnese Corruption Trial Opens
By George AnastasiaFor BigTrial.netBased on the "standards" set for corruption in Pennsylvania's First Senate District, the case against Larry Farnese seems penny ante at best.Nevertheless, the...
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The Parallels Between The Church And Penn State Sex Scandals
By John Zieglerfor BigTrial.netLike most readers of this website, I have been following with great interest the tremendous work by Ralph Cipriano exposing the obvious injustice done in one of the major...
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Farnese Jury Asked To Decide Between Bribe Or `Good Deed'
By George AnastasiaFor BigTrial.netIt was a lesson in political pragmatism delivered by the defense attorney for beleagured State Senator Larry Farnese at the opening of Farnese' corruption trial.You...
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Government Winds Down Pathetic Farnese Corruption Case
Is That All There Is?By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netStephen Huntington is a retired lawyer who, back in 2011, aspired to be the Democratic leader of the city's 8th Ward.Today, Huntington told a...
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8th Ward Dems Tell Feds Farnese Didn't Have To Buy Their Votes
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netA Democratic committeeman from the 8th Ward got his dander up today when a prosecutor asked if state Senator Larry Farnese offered him money in exchange for his vote to...
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Closing Arguments In Farnese Snore-Fest
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netFour lawyers squared off in a federal courtroom today to debate the Larry Farnese case in closing arguments that amounted to two hours of tedium.As previously reported,...
View ArticleJury Begins Deliberations In Farnese Trial
By George AnastasiaFor BigTrial.netA federal jury in the quid pro quo bribery case against State Senator Lawrence Farnese and Democrat Party Committeewoman Ellen Chapman began deliberations late this...
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Jury Begins Deliberations In Farnese Trial
By George Anastasiafor BigTrial.netThe quid pro quo bribery case against state Senator Lawrence Farnese and Committeewoman Ellen Chapman is now in the hands of a federal jury.The panel of seven women...
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Jury: Farnese, Chapman Not Guilty On All 13 Counts
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netThe government saw an international conspiracy in a $6,000 scholarship that state Senator Larry Farnese arranged six years ago for the daughter of a Democratic...
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