Plantiffs' attorney Eric Rothschild addresses the media following closing statements in the Dover intelligent design trial in November 2005. The civil trial was one of the nationally prominent cases involving York County in decades. Background posts: County First Amendment list grows and Dover intelligent design trial not over yet.
Last post, Witman murder among York County's most notorious crimes cited a sampling of major criminal cases that hit York County Court in recent years.
The following is a short list of other civil and criminal actions of note involving York County or York County people: ...
-- Since 2000, York countians have experienced at least three court proceedings that have gained the national stage: race riot trials involving York's mayor, the Witman trial in which one teenage brother was convicted of killing another, and the Dover intelligent design trial in federal court.
-- Ray Krone has become the 100th death row inmate to be freed by use of DNA evidence.
-- The notorious Hex trials involving the slaying of a suspected witch in 1929 climbed back into the headlines after a descendent of the deceased unsuccessfully sought to re-open the house where the murder occurred.
-- In a prominent civil case, a medical negligence lawsuit in 1991 resulted in a $6.5 million- jury verdict against York Hospital after a 16-day trial. At that time, the trial was reportedly the longest ever in county court, and the jury award was reportedly the largest on record. The lawsuit resulted from an incident in which a patient's oxygen tube became dislodged and went unnoticed for about 16 minutes. The patient was receiving medical treatment after an automobile accident, and the negligence incident left him in a vegetative state.
-- In 1997, the state attorney general charged state Sen. Dan Delp with paying for sex with a 19-year-old prostitute, buying her alcoholic drinks and billing taxpayers for their bar tab and a late-night snack. The next year, Delp pleaded guilty to two of the charges. He was fined and sentenced to probation. He decided not to seek a second Senate term.
Sources: "Never to be Forgotten," York Daily Record/Sunday News files.
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