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  • Commonwealth v. Floyd

    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 525 EDA 2023

    Commonwealth appealed an order granting appellee's motion to suppress evidence from a search of appellee's vehicle. The court found that since there was probable cause to arrest appellee and for the officers to obtain a warrant to search his vehicle, the evidence recovered from the vehicle had an independent source. Reversed.

  • United States v. Alowemer

    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Bibas
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    Case Number: 22-3217

    District court correctly applied terrorism sentencing enhancement where defendant's statements and conduct evidenced his intent to carry out a bombing in retaliation for the U.S. and Nigerian governments' actions against members of the ISIS terrorist group. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Rivera

    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Beck
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    Case Number: 1000 MDA 2023

    Defendant appealed from the trial court's judgment of sentence after his jury conviction of multiple counts of trafficking in individuals and related crimes. The court affirmed, holding that the trial court did not err in admitting Commonwealth's expert testimony on human trafficking and sexual violence victim dynamics pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. §5920 where defendant was accused of human trafficking involving sexual servitude and related crimes.

  • Hill v. Pennsylvania Parole Bd.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Fizzano
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    Case Number: 134 C.D. 2023

    Court vacated parole board's calculation of parole violation maximum date where it was unclear from record of sentencing hearing whether trial court accepted all the terms of defendant's plea bargain allocating credit for pre-sentence confinement between his new county sentence and original state sentence. Order of the parole board vacated and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Rivera

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 538 MDA 2023

    Possession of a firearm and a substance appearing to be marijuana in a vehicle supported reasonable suspicion for an investigative detention to determine the vehicle occupant's license status, particularly where the marijuana was not in its original packaging and medical marijuana card holders could not carry concealed firearms. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

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  • In the Interest of N.M.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 2200 EDA 2022

    Juvenile appellant challenged a dispositional order after juvenile court accepted appellant's admissions but rejected the agreed-upon disposition and court found juvenile court violated Pa.R.J.C.P. 407(A)(3) by accepting part of the tender, the admission, and basing its adjudication of delinquency solely on appellant's admission, without allowing appellant to withdraw the admission and/or without accepting additional evidence from either party. Vacated and reversed.

  • Soto v. Pennsylvania Parole Bd.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
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    Case Number: 98 C.D. 2023

    Petitioner appealed the denial of his request for administrative relief from parole board's decision recommitting him as a convicted parole violator and court found board's choice of 154 days of street time was fully consonant with its discretion. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Garcia

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 648 WDA 2023

    Appellant appealed his sentence following his conviction for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Morrobel

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 1703 MDA 2022

    Challenge to discretionary aspects of sentence failed where exercise of discretion to impose consecutive sentences did not raise substantial question and sentencing court adequately justified its decision based on the gravity of the underlying offense. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • United States v. Chu

    Publication Date: 2024-03-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Health Care Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Chung
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    Case Number: 23-1375

    Defendant appealed her conviction for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and healthcare fraud.