This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on August 25, 2005. In short, the gag order that was imposed by Judge Sylvia Rambo was reversed after Daily News attorneys appealed it to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on April 12, 2005. In short, the Daily News’ plea to lift the gag order imposed by Judge Sylvia Rambo was denied.
Judge Sylvia Rambo stated the following:
“The discovery materials the PSP (Pennsylvania State Police) has disclosed to plaintiff, if released to the media, threaten to prejudice the public from which jurors will be selected.”
Alright, so how is the public knowing the facts about the matter going to prejudice them if they are jurors? If anything, it makes them more educated jurors. The sad part is that the PSP continue to spew their own version of the story on their Web site. Is that not prejudicing the public?
This article was published by the Philadelphia Daily News on December 28, 2004. It’s a brief article that states attorneys representing the Daily News filed a motion to have the gag ordered, which was imposed by Judge Sylvia Rambo, lifted in the GHS radar gun scandal case.
Again, this gag order should have never been imposed to begin with. If anything it should be seen as retaliation to the Philadelphia Daily News, all the lawyers and other various news sources reporting on the problem.
Why the gag order if the Pennsylvania State Police have nothing to hide? They obviously had something to hide and internal memos show that.
This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on December 16, 2004. It discusses how Judge Sylvia Rambo issued a wide-ranging gag order that prohibits lawyers from releasing documents that surface during the discovery process in the ever-growing radar gun scandal.
Now if the GHS radar guns are so accurate, why would the Pennsylvania State Police request to have a gag order in the case to prevent newspaper reporters and lawyers from releasing documents to the public?
Simple answer: They don’t want the public to know the truth about the problems with their GHS radar guns. The Philadelphia Daily News was simply doing their job by reporting their findings and research to the public. Obviously the state police do not want the public to know about the problems when they are making $26 million a year on speeding tickets alone and all of the tickets that earned the money could be contested due to faulty equipment.
This gag order should have never been issued. The gag order was eventually lifted and Judge Sylvia Rambo recused herself from the case. I wonder why?