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Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stevens
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Case Number: 459 WDA 2023
Victim's ability to get a clear view of defendant over a period of several minutes, which enabled the victim to subsequently accurately describe defendant's appearance, created an independent basis to permit an in-court identification despite police suggestively showing the victim a single photo of defendant. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Chester County
Judge: Judge Rovito
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Case Number: 408-2022
Impaired driving defendant moved to suppress evidence of his vehicle stop by a Pennsylvania State Trooper. The court granted the motion where defendant's three momentary and minor touches of painted lane lines over the course of three minutes on a dark and winding road did not establish reasonable suspicion that he was driving under the influence.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stevens
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Case Number: 144 WDA 2023
Search warrant affidavit established probable cause where it described the child pornography materials uploaded by an IP address and verified the association of that address with the residence to be searched. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge DuBow
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Case Number: 2128 EDA 2022
Appellant appealed the denial of her motions for return of her gun, which was confiscated after she pointed it at her neighbors, and court found record supported trial court's factual findings that Commonwealth met its burden of showing the property was used during the course of criminal activity. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Restrepo
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Case Number: 17-1861
Government sought rehearing en banc after appellant's enhanced Armed Career Criminal Act sentence was overturned and court found no judge who concurred in the decision asked for rehearing, a majority of the judges of the circuit in regular service had not voted for rehearing and denied the petition for rehearing en banc. Motion denied.
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Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Nygaard
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Case Number: 20-3298
District court properly denied appellant's suppression motion because no seizure occurred when officers first spoke to appellant but he was seized when officers handcuffed him after he turned and ran and there was a reasonable basis to seize him based on his headlong flight, however district court erred in sentencing him to an enhanced sentence based on a prior Pennsylvania conviction for a "crime of violence." Affirmed in part and vacated in part.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Panella
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Case Number: 99 MDA 2023
Inadvertent omission of guilty finding in bench trial verdict was not the equivalent of a not-guilty verdict, enabling the trial court to correct its omission in the written verdict. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Nygaard
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Abigail E. Horn, Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, West Philadelphia, PA for appellant.
for defendant: Anthony J. Carissimi, Timothy M. Stengel, Robert A. Zauzmer, Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.
Case Number: 20-3298
Although officers displayed authority by blocking defendant and commanding him to stop, no seizure occurred where defendant's momentary pause followed by running from the officers meant he never complied with the officers' authority, and his flight gave the officers reasonable suspicion to detain him. Conviction affirmed, judgment of sentence vacated and remanded for resentencing.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Olson
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Case Number: 543 WDA 2023
Appellant appealed the trial court's parole-revocation judgment of sentence after denial of appellant's motion for reconsideration. Appellant argued that because his maximum remaining sentence after parole revocation would be less than two years, he should have been recommitted to county, rather than state, prison. The court affirmed, holding that appellant was property recommitted to state prison on his original seven-year sentence after revocation of his parole.
Publication Date: 2023-12-25
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
Judge: Judge Steinberg
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Case Number: CR-685-2023
Commonwealth appealed the court's grant of appellee's motion to suppress evidence and petition for writ of habeas corpus. The court concluded that its order granting appellee's pretrial motions should be affirmed where an arresting officer unduly extended appellee's detention based on nothing more than a hunch and appellee's brief scuffle with the officer to avoid being handcuffed did not rise to the level of resisting arrest.
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