After a Pittsburgh man was misidentified by police during a traffic stop, shot at and paralyzed in an ensuing car crash, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has affirmed his sentence of “guilty without further penalty” for failing to stop at a stop sign.
The defendant, Leon Datawn Ford, had argued that the sentence should be vacated because of inconsistencies between Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas judge’s adjudication of Ford and the charging documents, which had charged Ford with failing to stop at a yield sign.
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