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  • Commonwealth v. Chisebwe

    Publication Date: 2022-07-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0766

    Convictions for failure to exhibit driver's license and registration card on demand sustained where, despite the grace period for production, defendant argued with law enforcement officers for an extended period before ultimately producing documentation upon threat of arrest, which was the type of conduct the statute was intended to prevent. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Taylor

    Publication Date: 2022-06-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0679

    Different judge ruling on motion for reconsideration did not violate coordinate jurisdiction rule where jurisdiction over the reconsideration motion had been transferred by the judge who issued the initial ruling. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Landis

    Publication Date: 2022-06-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0650

    Trial court erred in granting new trial based on weight of the evidence challenge where it based its ruling solely on one commonwealth expert witness's testimony and substituted its credibility determinations for that of the jury. Order of the trial court reversed, judgment of sentence reinstated.

  • Commonwealth v Conklin

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0620

    The record demonstrated that defendant's resentencing was not the result of judicial vindictiveness where the trial court simply sought to conform the new aggregate sentence as closely as possible to the intent behind the original aggregate sentence after a misapprehension regarding his original plea. The superior court affirmed.

  • Penn Nat'l Mut. Cas. Ins. Co. v. Phillips

    Publication Date: 2022-05-30
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0603

    Trial court erred in denying appellant's petition to strike default judgment because the ten-day notice was defective on its face and violated rule 237.1(a)(2). Reversed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Carl

    Publication Date: 2022-05-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0571

    Trial court erred in Rule 600 calculation where judicial emergency declaration expressly required the exclusion of the emergency period from any prompt trial computation. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • Jordan v. The Pennsylvania State Univ.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Education | Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0565

    Appellant appealed order sustaining the preliminary objections filed by university appellees and granting the petitions filed by healthcare appellees to hold appellant in contempt of court and dismiss his amended complaint in action over appellant's alleged knee injury while a university football player and court found his appeal was procedurally deficient, his motion to recuse was untimely and trial court properly disposed of all of appellant's cognizable issues. Affirmed.

  • Hartford Fire Ins. Co. v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2022-05-23
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0575

    Insurer was obligated to provide UIM coverage equal to bodily injury liability coverage limit where it had not obtained a new rejection of coverage form upon renewal of the policy term. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Juray

    Publication Date: 2022-05-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0573

    Challenge to the credibility of victim's testimony constituted a weight of the evidence challenge rather than a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, and the weight of evidence claim was waived for failure to move for a new trial. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Snyder v. Snyder

    Publication Date: 2022-05-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 22-0521

    Husband appealed aspects of the property distribution plan in the parties' divorce and court found wife was competent to testify as to value of husband's company, trial court properly held husband responsible for a credit card debt, properly ordered husband to pay wife a lump sum but erred in double counting four assets. Affirmed, vacated in part and remanded in part.