• Commonwealth v. Cruz

    Publication Date: 2019-12-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 19-1394

    Where defendant relied on, as newly discovered evidence, a specific letter to him from investigators indicating that mistakes were made in the analysis of forensic evidence offered at his criminal trial, rather than an earlier and more general press release announcing such mistakes, the lower court erred in dismissing as untimely his Post Conviction Relief Act petition.

  • Commonwealth v. Mrozik

    Publication Date: 2019-07-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 19-0774

    Trial court erroneously imposed aggravated sentence of 12 to 24 months without providing reasons on the record, where standard range sentence that could be imposed upon defendant was a lower limit minimum of six months and an upper limit minimum of less than 12 months. Judgment of sentence affirmed in part and vacated in part, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2019-04-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 19-0449

    The trial court did not err in sentencing defendant, a juvenile lifer entitled to resentencing in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Miller v. Alabama, to 40 years to life in prison as the trial court was authorized to exercise discretion in imposing a sentence beyond the 35-year minimum provided in 18 Pa.C.S.A. §1102.1(a). The appellate court affirmed in part and vacated in part defendant's judgment of sentence.

  • Commonwealth v. Whiteman

    Publication Date: 2019-02-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 19-0198

    PCRA petition filed two years after judgment of sentence became final dismissed as untimely, since the trial court could not exercise its inherent powers to correct illegal sentences as an illegal sentence claim had to be brought under the PCRA. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Leight v. Univ. of Pittsburgh Physicians

    Publication Date: 2019-01-22
    Practice Area: Health Care Law | Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 19-0060

    Physicians' mere consideration, during voluntary outpatient treatment, of initiating involuntary examination of a suspected mentally ill person was insufficient to trigger the scope and provisions of the Mental Health Procedures Act. Order of the trial court affirmed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Glass

    Publication Date: 2018-12-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Evidence | Telecommunications
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 18-1528

    Defendant's claim, that the memorandum of approval supporting wiretap surveillance of his with a confidential informant was defective, failed where law enforcement articulated reasonable grounds for the wiretap monitoring and the authorizing deputy district attorney personally reviewed the facts of the case and ascertained directly from the confidential informant the voluntariness of his consent. The appellate court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.

  • Kelly Sys., Inc. v. Leonard S. Fiore, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-11-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 18-1358

    Trial court properly held that contractor did not need to file a certificate of merit with its joinder complaint bringing architect in as an additional defendant to subcontractor's action against contractor because the alleged acts of negligence in the joinder complaint were related to the acts of negligence claimed by the subcontractor in its complaint. Affirmed.

  • In re Estate of Huber

    Publication Date: 2018-10-23
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 18-1275

    Orphans' court erred in granting letters of administration C.T.A. to the attorney who held a power of attorney from the executrix named in the deceased's will because the register of wills had jurisdiction to grant letters of administration and there was no confirmation in the certified record that the will was admitted to probate or that the initial register of wills' determination was appealed to the orphan's court. Vacated.

  • Guntrum v. Citicorp Trust Bank

    Publication Date: 2018-10-09
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 18-1203

    Trial court properly awarded general and consequential damages in appellee's action asserting that appellant's failure to honor a credit disability insurance policy caused him to lose all his equity in the property because appellant failed to respond to the complaint or appear at the damages trial and could not raise the issue of hearsay evidence since it was not present at trial to object and its weight of the evidence claim failed because a homeowner was competent to testify as to the value of his property. Affirmed.

  • Zehner v. Zehner

    Publication Date: 2018-09-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
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    Case Number: 18-1108

    Trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting former wife's petition seeking an amended QDRO utilizing a correct coverture fraction consistent with 23 Pa.C.S.A. §3501(c)(1) and husband's argument that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to modify the order failed because the QDRO's use of an improper coverture fraction constituted a fatal defect on the face of the record. Affirmed.