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  • Commonwealth v. Gaston

    Publication Date: 2020-09-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0999

    DUI suspect gave voluntary consent to warrantless blood draw where consent was provided before officers read the implied consent form or warned suspect of the possibility of criminal penalties for refusal of the blood draw. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Satiro v. Maninno

    Publication Date: 2020-08-31
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0946

    Pro se appellant appealed trial court's finding that no contract existed between appellant and appellee and court found appellant's issues on appeal were so voluminous and vague there could be no meaningful appellate review and they were waived. Affirmed.

  • Burns v. Cooper

    Publication Date: 2020-08-24
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0903

    The trial court did not err in denying defendant's request for judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of plaintiff on her defamation claim where the jury could reasonably find that the defamatory meaning of defendant's statement, which impugned plaintiff's credibility, was understood by the recipients. The superior court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Webb

    Publication Date: 2020-08-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0911

    Trial counsel not ineffective for eliciting evidence of defendant's delivery of drugs to an eyewitness to a homicide defendant had been charged for as a means to challenge the eyewitness's reliability as a fact witness by portraying her as a habitual drug user. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. DiStefano

    Publication Date: 2020-08-17
    Practice Area: Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0875

    The trial court abused its discretion in excluding evidence related to the causation of the victim's death based on the dismissal of criminal homicide chargesas such evidence was relevant to the remaining charge of aggravated assault and whether defendant caused the victim serious bodily injury that created a "substantial risk of death." The superior court reversed and remanded.

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  • Commonwealth v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2020-07-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0786

    Criminal defendant was entitled to PCRA relief where plea counsel advised him to accept deal based on erroneous calculation of defendant's prior record score, where defendant likely would not have accepted had he been correctly advised as to his sentencing exposure. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Allison

    Publication Date: 2020-07-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0785

    PCRA petition correctly dismissed as untimely where petitioner failed to meet newly-discovered facts exception by failing to proffer specific facts in support of relief. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • C.L. v. M.P.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0761

    The trial court did not err in appointing a guardian ad litem and allowing the guardian access to the parties' mental health records where they knew or should have known their mental health would be at issue and the records were to be disseminated only to the guardian for a determination of the effect of the party's mental health upon thechild's best interests. The superior court affirmed.

  • O.G. v. A.B.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0710

    Mother challenged trial court's award of shared legal and physical custody of the parties' children and court found trial court's findings concerning the §5328(a) factors were supported by the record and trial court properly ordered that neither parent could take the children out of the United States without written consent of other parent but court remanded for trial court to determine if its restriction on the renewal of the children's Russian passports would affect their status as dual citizens and trial court entered custody order

  • S.G. v. R.G.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-22
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 20-0647

    Appellant argued second judge erred in holding a full evidentiary hearing and in not applying the law of the case doctrine in PFA hearing and court found the law of the case doctrine did not apply because first judge recused herself and made no judicial determination but merely granted the parties' request to include the terms of their agreement in her order continuing the proceedings and governing authority required second judge to conduct a hearing on the underlying merits of the PFA petition. Affirmed.