Sentencing • Victim Impact Statement • “Victim” • Community Impact

Commonwealth v. Ali, PICS Case No. 16-1448 (Pa. Nov. 22, 2016) Dougherty, J.; Baer, J. (dissenting) (26 pages).

Superior court erred in vacating appellee’s drug charges sentence based on the trial court’s consideration of the victim impact evidence used in the sentencing of the drug user who bought drugs from appellee and crashed a car and killed several people. Vacated and remanded for resentencing.