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  • Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 1195 EDA 2023

    Special probation had statutory general conditions that obviated the need for the trial court to impose specific conditions of probation at sentencing. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Barger

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1024 WDA 2023

    Court upheld lifetime registration despite invalidation of Megan's Law III where SORNA II imposed nonpunitive lifetime registration requirements on offenders with sexually violent predator designations.

  • Commonwealth v. Person

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 1249 MDA 2023

    Court correctly granted post-sentence motion for judgment of acquittal on charge of unlawful contact with a minor where there was no evidence that defendant contacted the victim to display, sell, or create obscene "materials." Judgment of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Huffman

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Cox
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    Case Number: 201 OF 2024

    The court granted defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus in part and denied in part.

  • United States v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Krause
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    Case Number: 22-1434

    Appellant appealed the district court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his girlfriend's home and statements made post-arrest following his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

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  • Cason v. Middlesex County Prosecutors Office

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 23-1545

    Robert G. Cason, proceeding pro se, appealed from the district court's orders denying his motion for default judgment and dismissing his amended complaint.

  • Commonwealth v. Walters

    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: 102 MAP 2022

    Trial court erred in admitting medical examiner's opinion of cause of death where it was not based on any objective medical evidence but solely on a witness's history of the case. Order of the superior court reversed, judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.

  • Handy v. City of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Pappert
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    Case Number: 24-1905

    Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's complaint for failure to state a claim and on the basis of qualified immunity. The court granted the motion as to all of plaintiff's claims against one of the defendants and as to some of the claims against the other. The court held, among other things, that plaintiff failed to state a claim of malicious prosecution in violation of the Fourth Amendment where one of the defendant police investigators was not involved in initiating proceedings against him, and where both defendant officers could h

  • Commonwealth v. Myers

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Olson
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    Case Number: 1195 WDA 2023

    The court vacated and remanded the trial court's order dismissing the Commonwealth's petition to revoke defendant's participation in the accelerated rehabilitative disposition program following her arrest for, inter alia, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, aggravated assault.

  • 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.