• Gur v. Nadav

    Publication Date: 2018-02-13
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 18-0142

    Debtor not entitled to strike or open confessed judgment where debtor failed to allege or provide evidence that lender was engaged in organized criminal or racketeering activity in charging debtor an annual interest rate exceeding the limit set in the RICO statute, but remand necessary to determine availability of offset for merchandise seized by lender. Order of the trial court affirmed, case remanded for rehearing.

  • Commonwealth v. Davison

    Publication Date: 2018-02-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 18-0132

    The evidence was sufficient to support defendants robbery conviction where he injured the victim while both punching her in the head and taking her purse, as the commonwealth was not required to elicit from the victim testimony regarding her precise level of pain. The appellate court affirmed defendants judgment of sentence.

  • Commonwealth v. McClellan

    Publication Date: 2018-02-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 18-0134

    The DNA evidence produced at trial strongly implicated defendant as a possessor of a gun found in the basement of his approved residence and the fact that other family members may have also handled the gun did not preclude defendants constructive possession. The court affirmed defendants judgment of sentence.

  • In the Interest of: J.P., a minor

    Publication Date: 2018-02-13
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 18-0137

    Foster parent lacked standing to intervene in dependency hearing, after being decertified as a foster parent and failing to take any steps toward adoption, but was merely entitled to notice of hearing and an opportunity to be heard. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Cline

    Publication Date: 2018-01-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 17-1915

    The jury properly found defendant guilty of violating the Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act where he knowingly and intentionally recorded a courthouse custody conference with his cell phone without the attendees permission, regardless of whether defendant knew the law proscribed such acts. The court affirmed defendants judgment of sentence.

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  • Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2018-01-23
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 18-0062

    Consent to warrantless blood alcohol test was constitutionally firm where driver was not warned of criminal penalties for refusal of consent. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Holt

    Publication Date: 2017-12-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 17-1844

    Defendant could not succeed on his ineffectiveness of counsel claim for failure to file a Rule 600 motion based upon an alleged speedy trial violation where there were more than 800 excludable and excusable delays that extended his adjusted run date well beyond his trial date. The court affirmed defendants judgment of sentence.

  • Hendricks v. Hendricks

    Publication Date: 2017-12-12
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 17-1813

    Trial court properly granted preliminary injunction where enjoined party was contractually prohibited from interfering with residential development conducted by party seeking the injunction. Orders of the trial court affirmed. Timothy Paul Hendricks and W. Todd Hendricks, brothers, were involved in the same companies, collectively referred to as TH Properties, and were involved in residential development on property they owned.

  • Commonwealth v. Rodriguez

    Publication Date: 2017-12-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 17-1761

    The trial court properly left it for the jury to assess the credibility of two witnesses who testified against defendant, though one witness changed his story and both witnesses sought leniency from the government, as it was for the jury to assess the credibility of the witnesses and consider their motives to lie. The court affirmed defendants judgment of sentence.

  • Commonwealth v. Wilcox

    Publication Date: 2017-11-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 17-1751

    Criminal defendant could not raise PCRA petition pursuant to the holding in Birchfield v. North Dakota, where defendant had knowingly and voluntarily pled guilty to DUI, did not preserve a challenge to his warrantless blood draw, and was not raising a challenge to the legality of his sentence or voluntariness of guilty plea. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.