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Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 19-0120
Pursuant to the fugitive forfeiture rule as applied in Commonwealth v. Deemer, the appellate court correctly affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence after the trial court found that he forfeited his appellate rights due to his fugitive status, even where counsel filed a timely notice of appeal on his behalf. The high court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources | Fee Disputes
Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 19-0001
The commonwealth court erred in its interpretation of "vertical gas well" under act 13 and the court held that an unconventional well was a vertical gas well subject to assessment of an impact fee whenever that well's production exceeded 90,000 cubic feet per day in at least one calendar month of the year. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2018-12-18
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Privacy
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 18-1532
Redaction of information from grand jury report that tended to impair reputational rights of individuals named in report but not criminally charged was best available due process remedy, where re-empaneling grand jury and/or directing supervising judge to review new exculpatory and rebuttal evidence was not statutorily authorized. Order of the court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Constitutional Law | Government
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 18-0922
Legislature violated Art. III, §4 of the Pennsylvania Constitution where it passed a bill whose contents were completely gutted and replaced without then considering the bill on three separate days in each chamber. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Supreme Court
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Case Number: 18-0928
Superior Court erred in affirming juvenile's adjudication as delinquent for the murder of his stepmother because the evidence was, at best, in equipoise and was insufficient as a matter of law to overcome the presumption of innocence. Reversed.
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Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Election and Political Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 18-0174
Free and Equal Elections Clause of Pennsylvania Constitution required that representative districts be compact and contiguous, without breaking up counties and municipalities, and of roughly equal population, which best ensured that each voter in every community had an equally effective opportunity to select representatives of his or her choice. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 18-0169
Death sentence vacated where appellant presented sufficient evidence at pretrial hearing to support finding that he was intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for death penalty. Judgment of sentence of death vacated, life sentence imposed.
Publication Date: 2018-02-13
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Expert Witnesses | Motor Vehicle Torts
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 18-0077
Superior court erred in considering appellants appeal of the trial court order disallowing the presence of appellants counsel during the standardized portion of a neuropsychological examination because the order was not an appealable order as of right under Pa.R.A.P. 313 where the order met only one of the three prongs of the collateral order doctrine. Vacated.
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
Industry: Automotive
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 18-0077
Superior court erred in considering appellants appeal of the trial court order disallowing the presence of appellants counsel during the standardized portion of a neuropsychological examination because the order was not an appealable order as of right under Pa.R.A.P. 313 where the order met only one of the three prongs of the collateral order doctrine. Vacated.
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 18-0112
Respondent judge was disbarred after he resigned his judicial commission and was convicted for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker in his courtroom and using it for recreational purposes while the founder and sitting judge of the drug court, obstructing administration of law and misapplication of entrusted property because respondents grievous conduct far outweighed the mitigation evidence he offered, it severely diminished the publics confidence in the judiciary and respondent offered no causal connection between his addictio
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