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  • Commonwealth v. Martin

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 791 MDA 2022

    Trial court erred in vacating jury's guilty verdict where sexual abuse victim's testimony was sufficient to support a conviction and the jury's verdict demonstrated that it chose to credit the commonwealth's evidence over defendant's case. Order of the trial court reversed, verdict reinstated.

  • Commonwealth v. James

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 1146 EDA 2022

    Evidence was sufficient to convict for drug conspiracy where a defendant could have criminal liability for entering a conspiracy with law enforcement officers or police informants as part of a law enforcement investigation or sting operation. Judgment of conviction affirmed, judgment of sentence vacated in part and affirmed in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Dahl

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Olson
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    Case Number: 309 WDA 2022

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence, challenging the trial court's order imposing victim restitution. The court vacated appellant's sentence and remanded for resentencing.

  • Commonwealth v. Grekon

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
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    Case Number: 273 of 2022, C.R.

    Court determined there was no probable cause to initiate a traffic stop for failure to come to a complete stop and failure to signal as officer's dash camera footage showed defendant did come to a complete stop and signaled his intent of travel. Defendant's motion to suppress granted.

  • Commonwealth v. Reeves

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 2545 EDA 2022

    Post Conviction Relief Act petition was properly denied as untimely where general allegations of prosecutorial misconduct or allegations of police misconduct in other cases could not support the government interference or newly-discovered facts exceptions. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

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  • United States v. Dowdell

    Publication Date: 2023-06-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Justice Hardiman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip R. Sellinger and Mark E. Coyne (Office of United States Attorney)
    for defendant: Richard Coughlin and Rahul K. Sharma (Office of Federal Public Defender)
    Case Number: 21-3251

    Government Waived Successful Defense to Suppression Motion by Failing to Brief and Argue the Issue

  • Commonwealth v. Priano

    Publication Date: 2023-06-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
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    Case Number: 603 OF 2020, CR

    Defendant filed an omnibus pretrial motion that included a request for dismissal of the criminal charges filed against him as having been brought after expiration of the statute of limitations. The court denied the motion.

  • Commonwealth v. Westlake

    Publication Date: 2023-06-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 361 WDA 2022

    Omnibus motion to dismiss DUI charges denied where challenges to legality of traffic stop and arrest were known to defendant and could have been raised in the initial omnibus motion; however, multiple DUI convictions should have merged for sentencing purposes. Conviction affirmed, judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded for resentencing.

  • United States v. Evridiki Navigation Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Phipps
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    Case Number: 22-2032

    District court properly convicted shipping companies for falsification of environmental records where circumstantial evidence indicated that multiple crew members participated in the cover-up, indicating that it was done at least in part to serve corporate interests.

  • Lee v. Thomas

    Publication Date: 2023-06-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Ceisler
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    Case Number: 101 M.D. 2022

    Court found petitioner's claims as to the calculation of his presentence credit were correct but sustained respondent Director of Classification Movement and Registration's preliminary objections as to respondent's duty to provide petitioner with the relief he sought. Preliminary objections sustained in part and denied in part.