Goldstein Mehta LLC is a law firm based in Philadelphia specializing in criminal defense. The firm represents clients facing a wide range of criminal charges in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including violent crimes, sex crimes, theft, drug offenses, white collar crimes, and juvenile cases. Their attorneys have experience handling cases at trial and on appeal, including post-conviction relief and federal habeas corpus petitions. The firm publishes legal blogs that analyze recent court decisions, evidentiary issues, and procedural developments relevant to criminal defense practice. Their content aims to inform readers about criminal law topics, court rulings, and defense strategies in state and federal courts.
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Fischer, holding that the trial court properly admitted forwarded emails as duplicates under the best evidence rule even though forwarded emails…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently issued a decision in United States v. Soto, vacating the sentence of a federal robbery defendant and remanding the case for…
Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has just decided the case of Commonwealth v. Farmer. In Farmer, the Court upheld Pennsylvania’s felon in possession of a firearm statute (VUFA § 6105) against an unconstitutional as-applied…
Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire
The Superior Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Scott, upholding the defendant’s conviction for drug delivery resulting in death and rejecting the defendant’s argument that he could not be prosecuted for…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Saunders. In Saunders, the Court held addressed the legality of a warrantless seizure of a gun from a car during a…
Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Phillips, reversing the defendant’s conviction for murder and finding that the police violated his Miranda rights by initially giving his Miranda warnings…
Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire – Philadelphia Criminal Defense Attorney
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Strunk, holding that unlawful contact cannot be proven solely through evidence that the defendant had some sort of illegal physical…
Criminal Defense Attorney Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Jones, holding that even despite the United States Supreme Court’s limiting of Bruton in Samia v. United States, the Commonwealth still may…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire
The Superior Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Walter. In Walter, the Pennsylvania Superior Court addressed the issue of whether a PCRA petitioner could raise claims of ineffective assistance of…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire
Philadelphia criminal defense lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire, recently won a new trial for a client who served 18 years for a wrongful conviction for attempted murder. In 2006, the client, R.C.,…
