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  • Commonwealth v. Frye

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 140 EDA 2023

    Trial court erred in finding insufficient evidence to establish mens rea for third-degree murder based on a "single punch," given the victim's incapacitation due to alcohol intoxication and defendant's unprovoked punch, failure to render aid, and attempt to cover up the facts. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • Mazzarese v. Mazzarese

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 428 WDA 2023

    Court affirmed trial court's order denying appellant's demand that the incomes of her children's maternal grandparents be included in the calculation of her child support obligations.

  • Commonwealth v. Royal

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 2429 EDA 2021

    Court overturned restitution order where trial court failed to specify the method of restitution at the sentencing hearing. Judgment of sentence affirmed in part and vacated in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Strouse

    Publication Date: 2024-02-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 2470 EDA 2022

    Trial court did not abuse discretion in imposing probation condition for defendant to surrender to their outstanding warrants despite defendant being under active probation supervision that prevented his travel to other jurisdictions, where defendant had failed to show good faith efforts to modify his probation to obtain approval to travel. Judgment of sentence affirmed in part and vacated in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Lamont

    Publication Date: 2024-01-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 112 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the judgment of sentence entered on his jury trial convictions for two counts of indecent assault of a child and related crimes. The court affirmed, concluding the trial court did not err in permitting defendant's child molestation victim to testify contemporaneously via video during defendant's trial.

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  • Ford-Bey v. Prof'l Anesthesia Serv.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 162 EDA 2022

    Hospital could not invoke confidentiality under the Medical Care and Reduction of Error Act for documents produced during root cause analysis into potential surgical error where there was no evidence that hospital's sentinel event policy qualified as a MCARE safety plan. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Campbell v. Tang

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Damages
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 1006 EDA 2022

    Party who broke off engagement was not required to return engagement jewelry because party who proposed marriage was still in a valid marriage at all times during the parties' dating relationship and engagement, making the engagement void ab initio and rendering the gift an unconditional gift. Judgment of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Aumick

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 1529 EDA 2020

    Sexual Offender Assessment Board investigators were permitted to consider documents and information outside the facts admitted to by a defendant or found by a jury in rendering an opinion concerning a defendant's SVP designation. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Malone

    Publication Date: 2023-05-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 425 EDA 2022

    Trial court erred in dismissing criminal case under Rule 600 because it failed to add time during judicial emergency where operation of Rule 600 was unambiguously suspended and improperly required the commonwealth to show its due diligence in bringing the case to trial during the judicial emergency. Order of the trial court reversed.

  • Weliver v. Ortiz

    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 2347 EDA 2022

    Trial court erred in finding it had subject matter jurisdiction over child custody matter where neither mother, father nor child had resided in Pennsylvania since April 2019 and trial court also erred in holding that father's 2018 petition was unresolved because the unresolved petition at the time of the hearing was father's 2020 petition. Vacated and remanded.