PA Bill Number: SB475
Title: In organization and jurisdiction of courts of common pleas, further providing for problem-solving courts; and, in sentencing, further providing for ...
Description: In organization and jurisdiction of courts of common pleas, further providing for problem-solving courts; and, in sentencing, further providing for ...
Last Action: Act No. 38 of 2025
Last Action Date: Jul 21, 2025
Obama Pardons Ex-Pittsburgh Councilman's Federal Gun Charge :: 12/20/2016
PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Barack Obama pardoned a former Pittsburgh city councilman’s 46-year-old federal gun charge.
Seventy-three-year-old Sala Udin says he filed a formal request for clemency four years ago and had given up hope when he was surprised on Monday.
The civil rights advocate served seven months of a five-year sentence on charges of illegally transporting firearms and untaxed alcohol.
Udin was driving to Pittsburgh from Mississippi, a state he first visited as a Freedom Rider, when he was pulled over in Kentucky in 1970. The officer found an unloaded rifle and a jug of moonshine in Udin’s vehicle.
The ex-councilman, who served from 1995 to 2005, has received pardons for various criminal charges he accrued between 1968 and 1970.
