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  • Commonwealth v. Hemingway

    Publication Date: 2018-07-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 18-0823

    The trial court properly found that defendant was subjected to an investigative detention and that his actions in speaking to a woman on a street in a high crime area with his hand in his pocket did not provide the required reasonable suspicion to support such a detention. The appellate court affirmed the trial court's suppression order.

  • Commonwealth v. Curley et al

    Publication Date: 2018-06-26
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Discovery | Public Records
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 18-0753

    The attorney-client privilege did not bar the court from unsealing certain documents and testimony defendants' counsel gave before a grand jury where the information had already been disseminated to the public and, thus, could not be resealed. The appellate court reversed in part and remanded for certain records to be unsealed.

  • Commonwealth v. Manivannan

    Publication Date: 2018-05-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 18-0581

    Addressing an issue of first impression, the court found the evidence insufficient to sustain defendant's conviction for unlawful use of a computer because lay witnesses were not competent to draw conclusions from information in the victim's email account setting that depicted multiple instances of disparate Internet Protocol addresses accessing her account from approximate geographic locations. The appellate court reversed defendant's judgment of sentence and remanded for a new trial.

  • Ferraro v. Temple Univ.

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 18-0544

    Trial court properly found that terminated managers age discrimination and retaliation claims failed because she did not meet her burden of proof to show discrimination, manager confused the second and third steps of the framework in challenging trial courts comment about the relevance of the credibility of employers witnesses and there was no suggestive temporal proximity between her termination and the filing of her internal age discrimination complaint. Affirmed.

  • Woodhouse Hunting Club, Inc. v. Hoyt

    Publication Date: 2018-04-17
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 18-0460

    Trial court properly found that a 1902 tax sale conveyed the oil and gas rights to the property in their entirety under Herder Spring Hunting Club v. Keller, 143 A.3d 358, the 1902 tax sale effectuated a title wash and appellee established a prima facie evidence of the entry of the 1902 deed. Affirmed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Akhmedov

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 17-1896

    While defendant demonstrated recklessness in driving at an excessive rate during a drag race, there was no evidence of the sustained, purposeful recklessness necessary to prove a knowing and conscious disregard that death or serious bodily injury was reasonably certain to occur necessary to support his four convictions for murder in the third degree. The appellate court reversed defendants convictions in part.

  • In Re Passarelli Family Trust

    Publication Date: 2017-12-12
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 17-1815

    Trial court abused its discretion in finding that the creation of an irrevocable trust was premised on fraud because although wife was not aware that husband had brought properties in Florida and included them in the assets of a corporation when she executed the trust, she identified no duty to fully disclose a corporations assets when the corporation was added to the trust corpus, there was no divorce pending when the trust was executed and she could not show that she suffered any injury from the misrepresentation. Reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Peralta

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 17-1707

    Trial court did not have discretion to entertain defendants assertion of involuntariness in failure to appear at de novo appeal from conviction in Philadelphia Municipal Court, and did not abuse discretion in affirming judgment of sentence. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Kurtz

    Publication Date: 2017-11-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 17-1024

    The court declined to adopt a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applicable to blood draw evidence after the U.S. Supreme Courts decision in Birchfield v. North Dakota, as such an exception would frustrate the privacy guarantees of the Article 1, §8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. The court affirmed an order granting defendants motion to suppress blood draw evidence.

  • Commonwealth v. Leonard

    Publication Date: 2017-11-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 17-1659

    Defendant subject to less than lifetime registration under SORNA where all of defendants sex offenses arose out of the same criminal episode, as SORNA required a conviction and then a subsequent act to trigger lifetime registration. Judgment of sentence vacated in part, case remanded for resentencing.