by KYW's Brad Segall
The attorney for a suspended constable is asking a Montgomery County, Pa. judge to throw out criminal charges that prosecutors filed against his client.
Michael Solow (above) is accused of illegally evicting a family from a West Conshohocken home and searching a Horsham apartment without a warrant last August (see related story).
But defense attorney John McMahon says there’s no evidence that Solow, 67, did anything criminal. McMahon wants the judge to dismiss official oppression and criminal coercion charges against his client:
"The essence of the argument is that at no time did Constable Solow act in any knowingly illegal way and in fact was acting in a good-faith manner in accordance with his duties as a constable.”
Prosecutor Tony Gil maintains that Solow was overstepping his bounds and using his badge to do things he shouldn’t have been doing. Gil says they met their burden of proof at the preliminary hearing (see previous story) and the case against Solow should continue to move forward.
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