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DUI ARD, Prior Offense, Sentencing Enhancement, Repeat Offender
Recidivist sentencing enhancement statutes continue to be declared unconstitutional based upon relatively recent US Supreme Court cases. In 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court decided State v. Apprendi. There the Court states a criminal sentence must be based upon facts the...Pennsylvania Suspends Certain Licensure Requirements for State Board of Psychology, and State Board of Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Professional Counselors
March 22, 2020 Pennsylvania Suspends Certain Licensure Requirements for State Board of Psychology, and State Board of Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Professional Counselors In order to increase the number of health-care practitioners available to...Covid -19 and Health Care Disciplinary Process
Dear Client, I hope this email finds you safe, well, and working. The covid-19 virus is creating widespread and appropriate panic throughout the healthcare world. It is wreaking havoc in the economy, our communities, and in the legal world. All local district...DWI and DUI Charges for Sleeping in a Car
Practicing medical professionals face many competing social and professional interests. Nurses, doctors, pharmacists, researchers, and/or hospital managers participate in celebratory personal or work related social events in which consuming alcohol can be described as...Pennsylvania’s New DUI Laws – Penalties and Grading
I am reading the changes to 42 Pa.C.S.A. 9763, Pennsylvania’s new DUI law. Mandatory minimum sentences are now mandatory sentences! Mandatory house arrest/work release/rehab? The DUI sentencing law seems almost eviscerated. It also seems to conflict with the...Notice of a Federal Criminal Investigation into a Medical Practice
A federal criminal target letter from a local United States Attorney notifies a potential defendant that they are the “target of” an FBI, DEA, or other governmental agency criminal investigation. Target letters say “you are the target” and place the...PA docs risk penalty for overprescribing opioids
As the opioid crisis prevails, states have taken strict measures to reduce the use of these dangerous drugs. Attempts include limiting who may prescribe them, to what patients and in what doses, says Pharmacy Times. Massachusetts became the first state to restrict...Reckless Prescribing and Death By Prescription
Every day medical practitioners confront complex and serious medical cases. Patients and their doctors face death every day of the week. In this opiate use and abuse environment, death is one pill, snort, injection, toke away. Prosecutors have been turning to the...Federal and State Laws Regarding Prescription Fraud
Some of my blogs are extremely dense. This and the next several blogs focus on the intersection of federal and state criminal statutes and regulations concerning illegally written prescriptions and the potential criminal consequences. Federal criminal statutes are...
