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  • L.L.B. v. T.R.B.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-10
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 81 WDA 2022

    Trial court properly granted parent's petition to obtain COVID-19 vaccination over co-parent's objection, after finding vaccination to be in child's best interests based upon medical expert's testimony that was based on review of child's medical records and recommendations from her pediatrician. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • RCKA Inv. LLC v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2022-09-12
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 22-1025

    Trial court erred in deciding appellant violated the case management order by failing to deposit money in an escrow account in an appeal of a landlord-tenant issue because the order and local court rules only set forth the procedure a tenant had to follow to obtain supersedeas to prevent eviction during the pendency of the appeal and provided no directive regarding escrow payments for tenants who did not wish to protect against eviction. Order vacated.

  • Commonwealth v. Holt

    Publication Date: 2022-03-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 22-0252

    Parent's withholding of information regarding information that could lead to apprehension of child suspected of murder could support parent's conviction for hindering apprehension or prosecution. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Washington

    Publication Date: 2022-02-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 22-0199

    Trial counsel was ineffective for erroneously advising defendant not to testify in his own defense based on defendant's prior conviction, when that conviction was not admissible for impeachment purposes. Order of the PCRA court reversed, judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.

  • Z.P. v. K.P.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 22-0126

    Commonwealth appealed trial court's order limiting interviews of children involved in ongoing child custody dispute and child abuse investigations and court found trial court lacked authority to dictate the manner in which commonwealth and Office of Children Youth and Families conducted its child abuse investigation. Reversed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Mullen

    Publication Date: 2021-12-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 21-1499

    Law enforcement only needed reasonable belief that subject of an arrest warrant was located inside a residence to enter, and anonymous tip establishing the subject's presence, corroborated by officers' observations of the subject inside the residence, were sufficient to provide reasonable belief. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Sandoval

    Publication Date: 2021-12-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 21-1500

    Trial court did not abuse discretion in allowing commonwealth to amend criminal information mid-trial to cite the correct statute, where the differences between the original and amended subsections were not material and thus defendant had notice of the alleged facts. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Frisch v. James River Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-11-08
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 21-1304

    Defendant was not entitled to new trial based on trial court's failure to re-read to the jury the model instructions for both pre-existing conditions and factual cause, where defendant had not objected at the time to the trial court's failure to read both instructions. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded for further proceedings.

  • Commonwealth v. Sanchez

    Publication Date: 2021-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 21-1203

    Miscommunication between police and prosecution, resulting in prosecutors being unaware of the existence of a material DNA analysis report and therefore failing to turn the report over to the defense, did not rise to the level of recklessness required to bar retrial on double jeopardy grounds. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2021-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 21-1115

    PCRA court could vacate entire sentence, including on charges for which the sentencing court had originally imposed "no further penalty," where the commonwealth requested resentencing after defendant had obtained relief on unconstitutional mandatory minimum sentences. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.