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  • Commonwealth v. Green

    Publication Date: 2023-07-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 2068 EDA 2022

    Police possessed reasonable suspicion to detain defendant after observing a firearm on his person and drug paraphernalia strewn throughout his vehicle, which smelled of burnt marijuana. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • M.T. v. Pennsylvania State Police

    Publication Date: 2023-07-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Ceisler
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    Case Number: 94 M.D. 2022

    Subjecting sex offender with out-of-state conviction to lifetime registration for offense that in Pennsylvania carried a shorter registration period was constitutional where the state of conviction imposed lifetime registration and thus offender was not being treated dissimilarly from other sex offenders convicted in states with more stringent registration requirements. Defendant's preliminary objections sustained, petition dismissed.

  • Commonwealth v. Rondon

    Publication Date: 2023-07-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 511 MDA 2022

    Trial court was not obligated to secure bondsman's written reaffirmed consent where trial court had initially forfeited defendant's bail due to the trial court's error.

  • Commonwealth v. Corson

    Publication Date: 2023-07-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 929 MDA 2022

    Appellant appealed the trial court's imposition of judgment on his convictions of multiple counts of driving under the influence and summary offenses. The court vacated the judgment of sentence and convictions and remanded for further proceedings.

  • Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2023-07-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge McCaffery
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    Case Number: 1256 WDA 2021

    Appellant appealed from a judgment of sentence entered on his open guilty pleas to charges of voluntary manslaughter and arson endangering persons. The court affirmed.

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  • Range v. Attorney Gen. United States of Am.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Hardiman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William V. Bergstrom, Peter A. Patterson, David H. Thompson, Cooper & Kirk, Washington, DC; Michael P. Gottlieb, Vangrossi & Recchuiti, Norristown, PA for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian M. Boynton, Jacqueline C. Romero, Mark B. Stern, Michael S. Raab, Abby C. Wright, Kevin B. Soter, United States Department of Justice Civil Division, Washington, DC for appellees.
    Case Number: 21-2835

    Federal felon-in-possession statute barring person convicted of false statements under state law was inconsistent with nation's historical tradition of firearms regulation.

  • Commonwealth v. Aumick

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 1529 EDA 2020

    Sexual Offender Assessment Board investigators were permitted to consider documents and information outside the facts admitted to by a defendant or found by a jury in rendering an opinion concerning a defendant's SVP designation. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Ridley

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Fritsch
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    Case Number: CP-09-CR-0005285-2018

    Appellant appealed the court's order vacating his conviction for drug delivery resulting in death and setting a new sentencing hearing on his remaining convictions. The court recommended that its order be affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. James

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 822 EDA 2022

    Statutory prohibition on the release of medical records relating to communicable diseases by state and local health authorities did not apply to prison medical records as the department of prisons did not qualify as a state health authority. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Rivera

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Brobson
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    Case Number: 22 MAP 2022

    Eliciting testimony regarding defendant's post-arrest silence usually constituted prejudicial error warranting a new trial since defendants could not be penalized for exercising constitutional right to silence. Order of the superior court vacated in part, case remanded for new trial.