South Whitehall, Pennsylvania: Taxpayers won’t foot legal bills for ex-officer Jonathan Roselle

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Taxpayers won’t foot legal bills for ex-officer in fatal shooting near Dorney Park, judge rules

Although he lost his $62,920-a-year police salary when he was arrested for shooting an unarmed man near Dorney Park in 2018, Jonathan Roselle doesn’t meet the legal definition of indigent and will not be permitted to tap legal funds to pay for expensive defense experts, a Lehigh County judge has ruled. Noting that Roselle owns “significant assets,” including three homes, Judge Kelly L. Banach said she was not swayed by the former South Whitehall Township police officer’s complaints of being unable to juggle both his monthly bills and the cost of his upcoming voluntary manslaughter trial. “The standard is not ...

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