Bucks County PA Criminal Defense Attorney Niels C Eriksen Jr

COVID ALERT @MontcoPA tested all 939 inmates in the county jail. Waiting on 199 tests, but 169 have come back positive. @VAArk says they've been taking temps 2 times a day prior to testing and none of these positives was showing symptoms. @KYWNewsradio @JMelwert

The third year of Poppy’s Project a charitable holiday gift program for the elderly, founded by Bucks County judicial secretary Jessica Frost in honor of he...r late father was a huge success. Jess and her fellow county volunteers, as well as the community, collected enough toiletries and other personal items to assemble 550 gift bags, far exceeding the ambitious goal of 500 that she had set. First stop on the distribution trail was Friday’s Happy Hour at Neshaminy Manor. Saturday morning, the crew held a party with residents at Harborview in Doylestown and handed out stockings door-to-door inside. Next, gifts were distributed at Pickering Manor in Newtown, where members of Bucks County’s Men of Harmony performed. Hospice packages went to Compassus in Fort Washington, and the final distribution came this morning at ManorCare in Yardley. Shoutouts to President Judge Wallace H. Bateman Jr., who let volunteers turn the judges’ conference room into a lunch-hour packing station, to Judge Mellon for allowing his chambers to be a collecting and storage area for all the donations and to all who donated and volunteered to Poppy’s Project. Look at those smiles! See more

Let's show love and appreciation to the generations before us We need donations! See comments for ideas. All donations go to local nursing homes. Do you know any businesses who will donate?!

PROSECUTION TO FOREGO DEATH PENALTY IN TRIAL OF SEAN KRATZ In light of last week’s jury verdict holding Sean Kratz criminally responsible for the homicides of Dean Finocchiaro, Mark Sturgis, and Tom Meo, and with the understanding of the victims’ families, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office today will end its pursuit of the death penalty in the case. District Attorney Matthew D. Weintraub will be available to the press to discuss the decision later today at the conc...lusion of Kratz’s sentencing hearing. Kratz, 22, of Philadelphia, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison after he was convicted Friday of both first- and second-degree murder for the July 7, 2017, killing of 19-year-old Finocchiaro, of Middletown Township. Jurors found Kratz conspired with his cousin Cosmo DiNardo to rob and kill Finocchiaro at a farm in Solebury owned by the DiNardo family where the young man’s remains were discovered burned and buried in a grave more than 12 feet deep. The jury also found Kratz guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg, Montgomery County, and Meo, 21, of Plumstead Township. I am awed by the grace demonstrated by the Finocchiaro family in helping me to make this difficult decision to not pursue the death penalty against the defendant, Weintraub said. But I am reminded, that we do this not for the defendant’s benefit, but for our own. It is the right thing to do, and now this criminal saga is over. I hope that the families of Jimi Patrick, Dean Finocchiaro, Tom Meo, and Mark Sturgis can take solace that both DiNardo and Kratz will die in prison for what they did to their boys. DiNardo, 22, pleaded guilty last year to his role in the grisly scheme and is serving four consecutive life sentences for the killings, including that of 19-year-old Newtown Township man Jimi Taro Patrick. Sourced via CRIMEWATCH