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  • Commonwealth v. Rollins

    Publication Date: 2023-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 70 MAP 2022

    Appellant appealed his sentence, contending the vehicle code provision that he violated was unconstitutionally vague for failing to specify a maximum term of imprisonment. The court affirmed the Superior Court's order affirming appellant's judgment of sentence.

  • Shrom v. Pennsylvania Underground Storage Tank Indemnification Bd.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-08
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Energy | Retail | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Brobson
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    Case Number: 21 MAP 2022

    Commonwealth court correctly reversed board's decision that plaintiffs were ineligible for payments from the Underground Storage Tank Indemnification Fund because §706(3) of the Storage Tank And Spill Prevention Act required the USTs to be registered and the §503 registration fees to have been paid at any time prior to the fund's eligibility decision and appellees paid the fees prior to that decision. Affirmed.

  • County of Fulton v. Sec'y of the Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2023-05-08
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 3 MAP 2022

    Court sanctioned county and its counsel for willful violations of protective order prohibiting third-party inspections of voting machines that had been decertified by the secretary of the commonwealth. Respondent's application for contempt and sanctions granted.

  • Franks v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-08
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 42 MAP 2022

    Appellants appealed the Superior Court's decision affirming the trial court's determination that they were not entitled to stacked underinsured motorist coverage after they removed a vehicle from their multi-vehicle insurance policy without executing a new stacked coverage waiver. The court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Perrin

    Publication Date: 2023-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 2 EAP 2022

    Parties' joint stipulation affirming witness's credibility in motion for new trial was not valid or enforceable where trial court possessed sole discretion regarding credibility determinations. Order of the superior court affirmed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Green

    Publication Date: 2023-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Brobson
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    Case Number: 16 WAP 2022

    Juvenile Code imposed strict deadline for trial court's ruling on juvenile's decertification petition, with no legislative text indicating a basis to adopt good cause exceptions to the deadline, such that the trial court's untimely order was a legal nullity and defendant's petition was denied by operation of law. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Yount v. Pennsylvania Lawyers Fund for Client Sec.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-03
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 2842 DD3

    Hearing committee properly found that attorney's subpoena for hearing recording under Pa.R.D.E. 521(c) was invalid because that rule was only valid for summoning witnesses to testify at the hearing. Affirmed.

  • United States v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2023-03-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 5 EAP 2022

    Court responded to a certified question from the third circuit and held that the use or attempted use of physical force was not an element of the crime of aggravated assault under 18 Pa.C.S. §2702(a)(1). Question answered.

  • Commonwealth v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2023-03-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 792 CAP

    Trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to call expert witnesses or develop and present evidence in support of the defense, where trial counsel had made a strategic choice not to present the identified witnesses and evidence to minimize the gruesome nature of the crime to help defendant avoid the death penalty, given the overwhelming evidence of his guilt. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Wallace

    Publication Date: 2023-03-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 93 MAP 2021

    Jamal Wallace appealed the superior court's order affirming appellant's judgment of sentence for aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy, and carrying a firearm without a license. Appellant's conviction arose from the shooting of Kamaal Dutton. As part of the investigation, police discovered that several businesses near the location of the shooting had exterior surveillance cameras. Investigators recovered surveillance footage that depicted two adults later identified as appellant and Mason Clary in the area in the hours leading up to