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Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law undercuts criminal charges, lawyer argues

The attorney for a Monroeville man told a Westmoreland County judge on Monday that Pennsylvania’s new law legalizing medical marijuana prevents his client from facing drug possession charges police filed after finding what they described as a grow operation at his former North Huntingdon home.

DA must approve some arrests based on eyewitness identification

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. sent a letter to city officials this week that says Pittsburgh police must get approval from his office to issue a felony arrest warrant that relies on an eyewitness who doesn’t know the suspect.

Marijuana gains ground in Pennsylvania Senate

In a round, silver tin presented to a panel of state lawmakers, nine ounces of pungent, federally approved marijuana offered cannabis activist Patrick Nightingale a reminder of how far he’d come, and how far he has to go.

Wrongly jailed Lincoln-Larimer man praises mother

An ankle monitoring device made DeAndre Brown a prisoner in his Lincoln-Larimer home on Saturday, one day after prosecutors dropped a robbery charge that had been based on a wrong identification and kept him in jail for a month.