• Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1019 WDA 2023

    Presence of drugs and paraphernalia in bedroom shared by defendant was sufficient evidence to infer constructive possession. Order of the trial court affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Coles

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 980 EDA 2023

    Police did not require reasonable suspicion or probable cause to search backpack voluntarily discarded by defendant after she fled into a residence that she did not have permission to enter. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Corbin

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1393 WDA 2023

    Court properly denied appellant's request for a refund of unremitted restitution owed to appellant's mother, as doing so would run contrary to the rehabilitative purposes of restitution and run afoul of equitable principles and public policy. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Dewald

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 199 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence on his jury convictions of kidnapping and related crimes. The court affirmed, holding that appellant's convictions of unlawful restraint and recklessly endangering another person were adequately supported in evidence.

  • Commonwealth v. Lyn

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1808 EDA 2023

    Commonwealth appealed the trial court's order granting appellee's motion to suppress evidence that police recovered from a vehicle. The court reversed, holding that appellee had no reasonably cognizable expectation of privacy in the vehicle where he crashed and abandoned the car, which belonged to another person, after attempting to evade a police traffic stop.

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  • Commonwealth v. Stefanowicz

    Publication Date: 2024-05-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1012 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence entered on his conviction of aggravated cruelty to an animal. The court affirmed, holding that the evidence was sufficient to convict appellant of one count of animal cruelty where he intentionally shot two dogs, only one of which had made physical contact with fenced deer that the dogs were violently harassing.

  • Commonwealth v. Watkins

    Publication Date: 2024-05-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Social Media
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 800 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence entered on his jury trial conviction of receiving stolen property and driving on a suspended license. The court affirmed, holding that the trial court did not err in admitting into evidence screenshots taken from appellant's Facebook account, which appellant utilized to offer stolen items for sale, where the digital evidence was amply authenticated by law enforcement testimony, victim testimony, and account records procured from Facebook's parent corporation.

  • Commonwealth v. Rosario

    Publication Date: 2024-05-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1430 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's order denying his petition for post-conviction relief. The court affirmed, holding that appellant did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel where his trial attorney recommended that he accept a favorable plea deal immediately before trial instead of pursuing a speedy trial motion that was unlikely to succeed in light of an adverse judicial ruling that Rule 600 computations were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Commonwealth v. Santiago-Burgos

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 573 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence following his jury conviction on three counts of possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance and related crimes. The court affirmed, holding that the trial court did not err in allowing Commonwealth to introduce at trial photographic evidence of appellant's chest tattoo, which depicted a scale, drugs and money.

  • Commonwealth v. Wright

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 124 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence entered after his jury conviction on charges of kidnap to facilitate a felony, robbery, and making terrorist threats. The court affirmed, holding that appellant's conviction was not against the weight of the evidence where his victim identified him by his eyes and other evidence linked him to the crimes charged. The court held further that the victim's voice identification of appellant was admissible at trial despite the fact that police played only a single voice sample for th