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Publication Date: 2024-09-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Cox
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Case Number: 552 OF 2023
The court denied defendant's omnibus pretrial motion which included a request for discovery and inspection of evidence as well as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in all respects and ruled that the case would remain on the March 2024 criminal jury trial term.
Publication Date: 2024-09-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
Judge: Judge Cordero
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Case Number: 63 of 2024
The court granted defendant's pre-trial motion for a writ of habeas corpus and dismissed all charges after a preliminary hearing.
Publication Date: 2024-09-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Cox
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Case Number: 903 OF 2020
In this § 1925(a) opinion, the court justified the denial of defendant's post-trial motion following his convictions by a jury for murder in the first degree and criminal conspiracy to commit murder for which he was sentenced to life in prison and 20 to 40 years, respectively.
Publication Date: 2024-09-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Cox
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Case Number: 648 OF 2023
Defendant filed an omnibus pretrial motion that included a motion to suppress evidence and pretrial writ of habeas corpus. The court denied the motion, holding that police had probable cause to obtain sequential drug trafficking search warrants for two apartments where a confidential informant made controlled drug buys from defendant's downstairs apartment and, subsequently, defendant and others fled to an upstairs unit as officers arrived to execute the first search warrant. The court held further that the Commonwealth presented evid
Publication Date: 2024-09-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 511 EDA 2023
Commonwealth appealed the trial court's order granting appellee's motion to dismiss charges due to a violation of his speedy trial rights. The court vacated the order and remanded for trial, holding that appellee suffered no speedy trial violation when two periods of excludable delay were included in the timeline between Commonwealth's filing of charges and appellee's scheduled trial date.
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Publication Date: 2024-09-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Panella
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Case Number: 1244 WDA 2023
Defendant appealed from the trial court's judgment of sentence entered on his conviction of resisting arrest. The court affirmed, holding that evidence of defendant's vigorous physical resistance when being detained by police supported his conviction for resisting arrest where defendant's behavior plainly subjected the officers to a risk of serious bodily injury.
Publication Date: 2024-09-09
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Jordan
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Case Number: 23-2260
Matthew Puccio, a sales representative for Rep Network, appealed his conviction for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, arguing that the district court erred in instructing the jury on willful blindness and in applying a managerial role enhancement under Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 515 WDA 2023
Commonwealth appealed the trial court's order denying its request to impanel a death-qualified jury. The court reversed and remanded, holding that the trial court acted outside its legal authority in usurping Commonwealth's ability to seek the death penalty by prohibiting the parties from proffering voir dire questions necessary to death-qualify a jury, and by ruling that there would be no jury deliberations regarding sentencing in a defendant's criminal homicide trial.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Cox
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Case Number: 903 OF 2020
Defendant sought post-trial relief after his conviction on charges of murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder. The court denied defendant's motion, holding in pertinent part that Commonwealth was properly allowed to amend its information to add the charge of criminal conspiracy on the eve of trial where defendant was afforded the opportunity to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus as a means of challenging the evidence in support of the newly-filed charge.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 1498 C.D. 2022
Trial court erred in granting civil forfeiture of defendant's vehicle where Commonwealth presented no evidence that defendant regularly used the vehicle as part of his drug transactions to support finding that the vehicle was an instrumentality of defendant's criminal activity. Order of the trial court reversed.
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