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  • Commonwealth v. Payton

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Cordero
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 63 of 2024

    The court granted defendant's pre-trial motion for a writ of habeas corpus and dismissed all charges after a preliminary hearing.

  • Commonwealth v. McMillan

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Cox
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 903 OF 2020

    In this § 1925(a) opinion, the court justified the denial of defendant's post-trial motion following his convictions by a jury for murder in the first degree and criminal conspiracy to commit murder for which he was sentenced to life in prison and 20 to 40 years, respectively.

  • Commonwealth v. Aly

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Cox
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 648 OF 2023

    Defendant filed an omnibus pretrial motion that included a motion to suppress evidence and pretrial writ of habeas corpus. The court denied the motion, holding that police had probable cause to obtain sequential drug trafficking search warrants for two apartments where a confidential informant made controlled drug buys from defendant's downstairs apartment and, subsequently, defendant and others fled to an upstairs unit as officers arrived to execute the first search warrant. The court held further that the Commonwealth presented evid

  • Commonwealth v. Dunmore

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 511 EDA 2023

    Commonwealth appealed the trial court's order granting appellee's motion to dismiss charges due to a violation of his speedy trial rights. The court vacated the order and remanded for trial, holding that appellee suffered no speedy trial violation when two periods of excludable delay were included in the timeline between Commonwealth's filing of charges and appellee's scheduled trial date.

  • Commonwealth v. Taylor-Dixon

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 1244 WDA 2023

    Defendant appealed from the trial court's judgment of sentence entered on his conviction of resisting arrest. The court affirmed, holding that evidence of defendant's vigorous physical resistance when being detained by police supported his conviction for resisting arrest where defendant's behavior plainly subjected the officers to a risk of serious bodily injury.

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  • United States v. Puccio

    Publication Date: 2024-09-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Jordan
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    Case Number: 23-2260

    Matthew Puccio, a sales representative for Rep Network, appealed his conviction for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, arguing that the district court erred in instructing the jury on willful blindness and in applying a managerial role enhancement under Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1.

  • Commonwealth v. Zieglar

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 515 WDA 2023

    Commonwealth appealed the trial court's order denying its request to impanel a death-qualified jury. The court reversed and remanded, holding that the trial court acted outside its legal authority in usurping Commonwealth's ability to seek the death penalty by prohibiting the parties from proffering voir dire questions necessary to death-qualify a jury, and by ruling that there would be no jury deliberations regarding sentencing in a defendant's criminal homicide trial.

  • Commonwealth v. McMillan

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Cox
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 903 OF 2020

    Defendant sought post-trial relief after his conviction on charges of murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder. The court denied defendant's motion, holding in pertinent part that Commonwealth was properly allowed to amend its information to add the charge of criminal conspiracy on the eve of trial where defendant was afforded the opportunity to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus as a means of challenging the evidence in support of the newly-filed charge.

  • Commonwealth v. 2016 Black Jeep Rubicon

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
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    for defendant:
    Case Number: 1498 C.D. 2022

    Trial court erred in granting civil forfeiture of defendant's vehicle where Commonwealth presented no evidence that defendant regularly used the vehicle as part of his drug transactions to support finding that the vehicle was an instrumentality of defendant's criminal activity. Order of the trial court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 1734 EDA 2022

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence on his jury conviction of rape and related crimes. The court affirmed, holding in pertinent part that the trial court did not violate appellant's rights by posing three brief questions to his crime victim at trial in order to clarify her responses to a question posed by Commonwealth.