On February 3, 2015, in conjunction with the annual High School Mock Trial District Competition held at the Montgomery County Courthouse, attorney John F. Walko, Esq. of the law firm of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, P.C., presented a CLE on Pennsylvania’s criminal homicide laws to the attorneys serving as mock jurors for the competition.  As the 2015 mock trial competition involved a murder prosecution, John discussed the various degrees of murder, including the applicable mens rea for the different degrees, manslaughter charges, and other enumerated homicide-related charges and applicable defenses.