If you have received a citation for a traffic or summary criminal offense, or if you have been arrested for a summary criminal offense, then you will likely be expected to appear in your local Pennsylvania district court for an arraignment, a traffic hearing, a preliminary criminal hearing, or even a non-jury trial. Although this […]

After a sweeping indictment of Philadelphia traffic court, a judge in the federal court declined to drop a case involving ticket-fixing charges. According to court record, there are six judges plus three others who were charged with traffic ticket scam, they claimed that there is no evidence to prove that they, defendants, received kickbacks and […]

Twenty years hence, the United States will be teeming with elderly drivers, white-haired grandparents operating cars; it is predicted that the number of senior drivers will triple nationwide. With age comes experience and mature drivers are more conservative on the road. However, statistics gave the opposite picture. It showed that older drivers are more prone […]

If you have been charged with a traffic violation, a municipal code violation, or a summary criminal offense in Pennsylvania, you will likely have to attend a hearing, arraignment, or non-jury trial in your local district court, which is also called magisterial court in Pennsylvania. Your hearing or other proceeding before a magisterial judge will […]

Getting a notice or summons to appear in a Pennsylvania district court can be concerning if you have received a traffic violation or been charged with another summary offense. Hearings for these kinds of offenses are heard first in district courts, also called magisterial courts, in Pennsylvania. These district courts also handle small claims (for […]