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Feds Highlight Murder Talk In Merlino Tape
"Leave the gun . . . "By George AnastasiaFor BigTrial.netIt was just a couple of guys talking . . . about how to commit a murder.And the feds got to listen in.Snippets of a conversation recorded by a...
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Twelfth Juror Stars In Chaka Fattah Appeal
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netWhile former U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah sits in jail, his lawyers are trying to get him a new trial.Their best shot involves pro-prosecution Judge Harvey Bartle III,...
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Let's Make A Deal -- Bernard Shero Getting Out Of Jail Early
The Philly D.A.'s Office In ActionBy Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netLike the Pope used to be, prosecutors think they're infallible.And when they screw up, or get caught playing dirty, they don't...
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Billy Doe Prosecutor: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Investigation
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netBernard Shero got out of jail yesterday. "He's home and we are so happy!!!" his mother wrote in a text.But the question remains: Why did the scandal-plagued...
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Dear Mr. Cipriano:  I would like to congratulate you for all the work you have done during the past five years. It is because of your reporting the truth and by you keeping the pressure on the...
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Penn State Confidential: What Did Mike McQueary Hear and See?
Editor’s Note: Once again Mark Pendergrast allows BigTrial.net to print the first of two excerpts about Mike McQueary and the infamous Penn State shower incident from Pendergrast's forthcoming book,...
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Lawyer For Former D.A.'s Bodyguard Claims He Was Retaliated Against For...
by Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netPierre Gomez had a front row seat when it came to watching former District Attorney Rufus Seth Williams in action.In 2010, Detective Gomez went to work on the personal...
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Penn State Confidential: What Mike McQueary Heard And Saw, Part 2
PART TWO: Editor’s Note: Here is the second and final excerpt on Mike McQueary and Allan Myers from The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgment, by Mark Pendergrast.By Mark...
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Big Ron Previte Dead At 73
By George AnastasiaBig Ron Previte, the mobster turned government witness whose cooperation brought down three crime bosses and changed the face of the Philadelphia mob, died last week after suffering...
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Franco Harris: Graham Spanier Trial, Jail Sentence A Ridiculous Farce
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netFranco Harris thinks that former Penn State University President Graham Spanier got screwed.Harris, 67, the former Penn State star and NFL Hall of Famer with the...
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CNN Smears Joe Paterno With Old News From Tainted Source
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netOn Saturday, when the Nittany Lions were defeating the Pittsburgh Panthers 33-14 to go 2-0 on a promising young football season, Sara Ganim of CNN posted a blast from...
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Inky Readers Hit Paywall
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netAt 10:30 a.m. on the Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend, visitors to philly.com ran into a big surprise -- a brand new paywall.If you were one of those readers who had...
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State Attorney General's Office Tries To Keep Sandusky Probe Secret
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netWhat do you do when you screw up royally?If you're the state Attorney General's office, you try to keep a top secret lid on everything, even if its years after they put...
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Wine Club Crushes It
PhillyVoice/Tracie Van AukenBy Ralph CiprianoOn Saturday morning, 28 men gathered outside a South Jersey warehouse to crush 25,000 pounds of grapes.Stacked in the yard on grass and gravel were 680...
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Boy In The Shower Says He Can't Remember 34 Times
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netAllan Myers, the boy in the Penn State showers that Mike McQueary allegedly saw being raped by Jerry Sandusky, sure has a lousy memory.Myers couldn't remember when a...
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Cosby's Accuser Has A Secret
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netAndrea Constand, the woman who accused Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her, has a few secrets she'd like to keep.So in federal court in Philadelphia,...
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Penn State Confidential: Prosecutor Told McQueary To Clam Up
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netOn Nov. 10, 2011, six days after the state Attorney General's office released its official grand jury report on the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal, deputy Attorney Jonelle...
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Pro-Prosecution Inky Denounces Payday Loan Defendants During Trial
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netThe Philadelphia Inquirer is typically pro-prosecution.It's something that defendants in a long line of corruption cases can attest to, such as Vince Fumo, Chaka...
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Sandusky's Lawyers Charge A.G.'s Office With Brady Violations
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netLawyers for Jerry Sandusky yesterday charged the state Attorney General's office with prosecutorial misconduct for withholding a revelatory email exchange between the...
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Spanier's Lawyers Say Statute Had Run On Crime He Was Convicted Of
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netGraham Spanier's conviction on a single count of child endangerment doesn't make much sense from a variety of different angles, his lawyers argued in an appeal brief...
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