PACDL News
Amicus Committee

PACDL's Amicus Committee spent a busy December, 2014 and filed one Amicus brief with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and joined in a Superior Court Amici filing. Our Amicus Chair, Barbara Zemlock, deserves our thanks and praise for all the 2014 filings. Barb, without you, this would never have been achieved.

 

In Commonwealth v. Barnes, filed December 23, 2014 in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Middle District, PACDL argued that the activation of police dome lights after pulling up behind a parked car constituted a seizure as a reasonable person would not feel free to leave. Our thanks go out to David Rudovsky and Jules Epstein for writing this brief. Read the brief by going to our website:  www.pacdl.org

 

In Commonwealth v. Batts, filed December 26, 2014 in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District, PACDL joined with the Juvenile Law Center, the Defender Association of Philadelphia and the Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project in arguing that the imposition of life without parole upon a juvenile is inconsistent with Miller v. Alabama and is unconstitutionally arbitrary and capricious. Thank you to Bradley Bridge, Marsha Levick and Emily Keller. If you'd like a copy of this brief and are a PACDL Member, send a note to the office at PACDL@aol.com.

 

 

2015 DUI & Motor Vehicles Seminar 

There is still room at our 2015 Motor Vehicles Seminar on Friday, January 30, 2015 at the Hotel Hershey.

Download the brochure


  

2015 Joint Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting Committee is hard at work on this year's Joint Annual Meeting of PACDL, PDAPA and JDAP. If you know you are attending the 2015 Annual Meeting on April 23 - 24, 2015, the Harrisburg Hilton is ready to make your reservations. The room block expires March 23, 2015 and the rate is $132/night/double or single, plus tax..
You can go to www.harrisburg.hilton.com and use the group code of PACDL to make your reservations and get more information about the hotel.
They have also given us our own web page to make our reservations.  

·  The 2015 Annual Meeting personalized web page address, where you can make your reservations is:

http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/M/MDTHHHF-PACDL-20150422/index.jhtml 

 

The Hilton has asked that we give you the following information to help you make your reservations:

Group Name:

PACDL 2015 Annual Meeting

Group Code:

PACDL

Check-in:

22-APR-2015

Check-out:

25-APR-2015

Hotel Name:

Hilton Harrisburg

Hotel Address:

One North Second Street

 

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

 

17101-1601

Phone Number:

717-233-6000

 

Of course, you can CALL the hotel to make your reservation at

717-233-6000