• Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2024-11-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 92 MAP 2021

    Appellant appealed an order of the Superior Court affirming the trial court's judgment of sentence entered on her convictions for murder and related crimes. The court affirmed, holding that appellant suffered no violation of her Confrontation Clause rights where the trial court admitted into evidence a redacted confession by her non-testifying co-defendant boyfriend, accompanied by a proper cautioning instruction to the jury.

  • Krasner v. Ward

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 2 EAP 2023

    The court held that the articles of impeachment of the District Attorney of Philadelphia passed by the House of Representatives of the 206th Session of the General Assembly became null and void upon the expiration of the 206th Session of the General Assembly. The court reversed the part of the summary judgment of the Commonwealth Court that denied the DA's request for relief on that point.

  • Commonwealth v. Walters

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 102 MAP 2022

    Trial court erred in admitting medical examiner's opinion of cause of death where it was not based on any objective medical evidence but solely on a witness's history of the case. Order of the superior court reversed, judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Anderson

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 801 CAP

    Evidence was sufficient to support first-degree murder conviction where appellant admitted to shooting the victims and the manner of their death permitted the jury to infer that defendant had specific intent to kill. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Caruso v. Caruso

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 14 WAP 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's order granting specific performance of a partnership agreement's buy-out provision. The court reversed, holding that the spouse of a deceased business partner who was not an original party to a partnership agreement, nor a third-party beneficiary of that agreement, and where the terms of the agreement did not permit assignment of a deceased partner's interest to a non-party could not be permitted to "step into the shoes" of the deceased partner and enforce the partnership agreement.

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  • Commonwealth v. Torsilieri

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 97 MAP 2022

    Subchapter H of THE Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act was not unconstitutional where the irrebuttable presumption of recidivism did not violate the right to reputation as scientific consensus did not rebut that presumption. Order of the trial court reversed.

  • Ivy Hill Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 65 MAP 2022

    Court vacated commonwealth court's order dismissing appellant's petition and its motion for summary relief in its action seeking to have its elders covered by the clergyman privilege as to mandatory reporting of child sex abuse, because commonwealth court's determinations that appellant did not have standing and that a grant of declaratory relief would not terminate the controversy violated the coordinate jurisdiction rule. Reversed.

  • In re: Senior Health Ins. Co. of Pennsylvania

    Publication Date: 2024-02-16
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 71 MAP 2021

    Insurance rehabilitator possessed broad statutory authority to propose and implement plan for the rehabilitation of a financially-distressed insurer, including when that plan would affect policies issued in other states. Order of the commonwealth court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Taylor

    Publication Date: 2024-02-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 40 MAP 2022

    The court considered whether the juvenile court's violation of appellee's Fifth Amendment rights by considering his refusal to admit guilt in transferring his case to adult criminal court was subject to appellate review for harmless error. Appellee, then 17 years old, was alleged delinquent of the felony offenses of rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, and sexual assault. The commonwealth petitioned to transfer appellee to adult criminal court. The juvenile court conducted a hearing, under which appell

  • B.C. v. C.P.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 8 WAP 2023

    Appellants appealed the trial court's denial of their motion to dismiss appellee's complaint to establish paternity. The court reversed and remanded, holding that a marital couple's separation prior to the filing of a paternity action does not, per se, preclude application of the presumption of paternity.