A judge will rule by the end of the year whether the attorney in a civil suit representing the driver of a rented U-Haul truck who struck and killed another man in a December 2022 crash in Cranberry Township should be disqualified because he also represents U-Haul and its insurance company.

At a hearing Thursday, Butler County Common Pleas Court Judge Kelley Streib instructed attorneys to file briefs containing arguments and said she would issue a ruling before the end of the year.

Attorney Fred Rabner represents Jennifer Forsyth, the administrator of the estate of Bertram Forsyth, who was killed in the crash. Rabner argues attorney Richard Wickersham Jr., who represents Darren M. Martin, 37, of Aliquippa, who is serving a prison sentence for the crash, should be disqualified because he

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