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  • 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.

  • Commonwealth v. Berry

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 16 EAP 2023

    A sentencing court may not lawfully consider a defendant's record of prior arrests which did not result in either juvenile adjudications or adult convictions as a factor in sentencing. Reversed and remanded.

  • Williams v. Sec'y Pennsylvania Dep't of Corr.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge McKee
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    Case Number: 22-2399

    DOC was not entitled to qualified immunity because it was clearly established that prisoners with known severe mental illness could not be held in prolonged solitary confinement due to the harm to mental health caused by such confinement. Order of the district court affirmed in part and vacated and remanded in part.

  • Commonwealth v. McCullough

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 824 WDA 2022

    Appellant's judgment of sentence for aggravated assault, person not to possess a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license, and recklessly endangering another person was affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Eakin

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 1113 WDA 2021

    Commonwealth appealed the trial court's order granting appellee's motion to suppress. The court reversed and remanded, holding that the trial court erred in suppressing evidence derived from a traffic stop conducted by a police officer acting outside his primary jurisdiction where a township's technical violation of the Municipal Police Jurisdiction Act did not invalidate the officer's attempt to uphold the rule of law in good faith in pulling over an inebriated driver.

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  • Commonwealth v. Thomas

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 808 CAP

    Appellant appealed the dismissal of his Post Conviction Relief Act petition after he was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and related crimes. The court affirmed, holding that appellant failed to demonstrate intentional or reckless prosecutorial misconduct where the prosecutor in his case relied on a documentary exhibit to refresh a testifying police officer's memory regarding a fact later contradicted by other police officers.

  • United States v. Valentin

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    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: 21-2639

    Appellant appealed his conviction, where he was sentenced as a career offender for his role in a robbery.

  • Commonwealth v. Sandusky

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1059 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the post-conviction relief court's order denying his motion for a new trial based on after-discovered evidence, which appellant argued showed that an attorney and psychologist used unduly suggestive techniques when interviewing his alleged child sexual abuse victims. The court affirmed, holding that the post-conviction relief court properly denied appellant's motion without an evidentiary hearing where he failed to show that his after-discovered evidence would be used for a purpose other than impeaching a witness's

  • Commonwealth v. Myers

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 1120 MDA 2022

    Court disputed whether including prior felony conviction used in an offense gravity score as part of the defendant's prior record score constituted impermissible "double counting." Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. McCormick

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge McLaughlin
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    Case Number: 1116 WDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence entered on her conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance-metabolite of a substance. The court affirmed, holding that the statute under which appellant was convicted was not unconstitutionally vague in forbidding operation of a motor vehicle with a metabolite of a controlled substance in one's blood.