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  • Stoley v. Wampler

    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 712 WDA 2023

    The court vacated the lower court's judgment entered in this quiet title dispute over lot boundaries and modified and remanded with instructions for the trial court to determine how much of the disputed area of the property at issue the plaintiffs possess and then reconsider their quiet title claim.

  • In re: M.A.C.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 373 WDA 2023

    Appellant challenged the trial court's order denying his petition to expunge his involuntary mental health commitment under the Mental Health Procedures Act. The court affirmed, holding that the evidence was sufficient to support appellant's commitment where a responding police officer opined that appellant was a clear and present danger to others, but the evidence available to an examining physician indicated appellant required commitment for medical evaluation and treatment because he was a clear and present danger to himself.

  • In re S.O.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-15
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 398 WDA 2023

    Appellant challenged an involuntary commitment order and court found there was sufficient evidence in the record to justify orphans' court's finding that appellant should be involuntarily committed, despite appellant's threat being silent as to exactly when he was going to shoot his stepbrother. Affirmed.

  • In the Matter of the Adoption of L.C.J.W.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 688 WDA 2023

    Mother appealed trial court's orders involuntarily terminating her parental rights to her two children. The court affirmed where evidence amply supported the trial court's conclusion that mother's ongoing substance abuse and mental health issues, despite a year of comprehensive support services, meant that termination of her parental rights would best serve her children's developmental, physical, and emotional needs.

  • Commonwealth v. Falcey

    Publication Date: 2024-02-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 1541 EDA 2023

    Appellant's counsel filed a petition to withdraw and a supporting Anders brief. The court denied the petition where counsel presented an impermissible hybrid advocate's/no-merit brief that identified a potentially meritorious issue on appeal.

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  • Commonwealth v. Merced

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 231 MDA 2023

    Trial court violated defendant's ex post facto rights by sentencing him under a criminal statute that became effective after defendant's criminal conduct. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 987 WDA 2022

    Court remanded dismissal of Post Conviction Relief Act petition where defendant supplemented with claims of ineffective assistance of PCRA counsel and PCRA court failed to adequately explain the reasons for dismissing the petition. Order of the PCRA court vacated, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Baumann

    Publication Date: 2024-01-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 1923 EDA 2022

    Trial court erroneously revoked probation for defendant's failure to submit to a polygraph where an exam was one of three options for complying with sex offender treatment and defendant was participating in another option. Order of the trial court reversed.

  • Glover v. Junior

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 1369 EDA 2022

    Appellant appealed from the trial court's domestic relations order granting appellee's petition for pre-birth establishment of parentage of the child that the female couple conceived through in vitro fertilization during marriage. The court affirmed, concluding that appellee had a contractual and an "intent-based" right to parentage.

  • Commonwealth v. Crenshaw

    Publication Date: 2023-12-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 49 WDA 2022

    Appellants were not subject to Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act registration requirements where they were subject to passive notification requirements in North Carolina and their offense of conviction under the North Carolina taking indecent liberties with children statute was broader in scope than the Pennsylvania indecent assault statute. Judgments of sentence vacated.