Agree. This bar has more homicides than a season of CSI.

This is bad enough, but he’s using it to hide the story about him directing the office not to make plea deals after he lost the endorsement and before the primary. Fuck this guy completely. Vote for Matt Dugan.

“DA to make last ditch effort at winning election.”

I used an EatNPark as my office in undergrad. Best of luck!

Good.

You’re probably looking at the magistrate docket sheet and there’s a common pleas court case. The sentence if there is one yet will be reflected on the common pleas docket sheet.

Iirc PA previously owned all of Delaware and had at least an arguable claim to most of Maryland past Baltimore.

DM me if you like. I know a guy.

And certainly different today than it was when the law was enacted. And different within families.

I literally do not care what happens to my body when I die. And I certainly don’t want my dignity to be used as a basis to put kids in prison years later.

I’m not suggesting it’s not wrong or morally reprehensible. But it’s not what prison is for.

You’re entitled to your own opinion, but in mine, prison is meant for people who represent a threat to the community so that they have to be isolated. These are kids just out of high school who need to grow the fuck up, not threats to the community.

There’s nothing in the statute that doesn’t apply to funereal requests, and there’s nothing in the statute that says if the (or some members of the) family request something, it’s not still a basis for liability.

Contrariwise, there is language in the comment to the statute that indicates that it’s reference to authorization by other law means to exempt those engaged in academic settings.

I mean, I’d prefer a disposition that’s has a little more learning. Impose some ARD that has x-100 hours of community service in connection with funereal directors or palliative care for the elderly or something. Use the opportunity to rehabilitate. These aren’t hardened criminals who are dangerous to the community. They’re kids who need to be taught a lesson.

Sure. I do. But have some respect for what taking two years of someone’s life is.

I don’t think we have any facts on whether or to what degree the deceased would have cared, but I agree with your points otherwise.

I just think this transgression is one that should be dealt with via learning the points you’ve raised, or via personal and university sanctions, not criminal ones. Maybe the criminal process will be the cudgel to make that learning happen. But if these folks do 2 years at the ACJ, that’s a gross overreaction.

Not sure why you feel a need to veer into personal attacks here man. Have a good night.

Of course it blurs the line. The families here gave license for the use of these bodies that literally includes the actual acts here. That fact is not different because the acts were accompanied by lewd comments. Maybe that’s legally significant or maybe it’s not, but it’s a hell of a thing to take 2 years of someone’s life for.
Maybe I just care less about what happens to my body when I die, but this just seems like grossly disproportionate.

And again, imagine a law that says it’s an M2 to “treat people in a way that would offend ordinary sensibilities.” That kind of vagueness is just an open door for arbitrary and discriminatory law enforcement. “Don’t be awful” is a good enough personal code I guess, but it’s hardly a legal one built for our already trash legal system.

And perhaps more importantly how broad is “treats a corpse in a way that would offend ordinary family sensibilities”?

Imagine yourself in say, Greene County, and imagine all the things that, say, a funeral director does and how they could offend “ordinary family sensibilities” of people there. Embalming offends some “ordinary” families. Putting makeup or other appearance enhancements could offend others. Acknowledging that the person was divorced, or gay, or atheist, or in drug recovery, or so on, could come under the sweep of this statute, and the punishment is up to 2 years in jail.

For my part, I would think that these students are immature as fuck, and they need to learn, not be put into the carceral system. If prosecution leads to that, great. But our jail is full of actual dangerous people, and it shouldn’t be full of stupid ass kids.

That’s all fine and well, but it blurs the line a bit when you’ve given them the right to literally dissect your loved one’s vagina.

Again, not defending this conduct morally, but I’m not sure what ordinary sensibilities are when you’ve given grandpa to the university for experiments and study.

I understand this is gross and wrong, but it strikes me that it’s better suited to opprobrium from peers or professors or expulsion from university or whatever than up to two years in the ACJ. Grabbing a cadaver’s dick for a laugh shouldn’t mean a year on bail and two years in reds.

Also the statute is vague as hell. What the hell are “ordinary family sensibilities” and how is a person supposed to conform his conduct to such a vague term?

And for what it’s worth, when I die, I literally do not give two shits what you do with my body.

My money is on a President Judge of a statewide court from the Philly area. President Judge Cohn Jubelirer of the Commonwealth Court and President Judge Panella of the Superior Court are both from the Lehigh Valley but maybe they shop in Montco?

Sounds great. We’ll take ‘em in Pittsburgh too!

You should form an LLC and get insurance. You should also talk with your local police about rules about soliciting.

Not really. His term was already to end on January 1. So, big stakes, but same stakes.

In all likelihood, nobody will be appointed.