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  • Commonwealth v. Pounds

    Publication Date: 2018-04-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Motto
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0404

    Defendant was not entitled to withdraw his guilty plea where commonwealth demonstrated it would be prejudiced due to the death of the victim between the time of defendants guilty plea and his motion to withdraw it.

  • Commonwealth v. Jordan

    Publication Date: 2018-04-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0418

    PCRA petitioner correctly dismissed where issues already raised and litigated on direct appeal. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Gorman

    Publication Date: 2018-04-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0416

    The evidence was sufficient to support defendants conviction on charges of theft by unlawful taking in violation of 18 Pa.C.S. §3921(a) and related offenses where he spent a funeral honor guards money on personal items such as furniture and country club memberships. The appellate court affirmed a trial court order denying defendant relief.

  • Commonwealth v. Giles

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0384

    The trial court did not err in allowing the commonwealth to admit a video of the victims forensic interview as a prior consistent statement where the victim was subjected to extensive cross-examination to discredit her recollection and the interview was admitted to corroborate her impeached testimony. The appellate court affirmed a trial court order denying defendant relief.

  • Commonwealth v. Mangel

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0386

    Commonwealths motion to introduce Facebook messages and posts allegedly made by defendant correctly denied where the commonwealth failed to present evidence sufficiently corroborating defendant as the owner of the account and the sender of the messages at issue. Order of the trial court affirmed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Pier

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0387

    Defendant not entitled to relief from no contest plea based on allegation that he lied in his plea colloquy, or claim that he would not have lied during colloquy had plea counsel explained the legal standard for post-sentence withdrawal of plea. Order of the PCRA court affimed.

  • U.S. v. Mills

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Tax
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    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
    Judge: District Judge Fischer
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    Case Number: 18-0397

    Court quashed husbands motion to compel and for a rule 17(c) subpoena seeking discovery in his prosecution for filing false tax returns after wife pled guilty to embezzling $12.9 million from her employer because husband failed to point to specific admissible evidence relevant to the false tax return charges for his rule 17(c) subpoena and his motion to compel sought items relating to the source of the income or the victims failure to uncover the fraud scheme which were not relevant to the false tax filing charges. Motion to quash g

  • Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0388

    Trial counsel not ineffective in advising defendant to waive jury trial based on counsels strategic belief that it would result in a fairer trial due to counsels experience of violent sexual crimes inflaming and prejudicing juries against defendants. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Gibbs

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0383

    Where defendant was incarcerated prior to the disposition of new charges against him and he failed to satisfy bail at the time of his arrest on the new charges, the trial court was required to credit him with the time served prior to the disposition of new charges against his new sentence. The appellate court vacated defendants judgment of sentence and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. King

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0385

    Trial court did not abuse discretion in admitting and considering victim impact statement that contained single disparaging remark toward defense counsel, where, on balance, letter properly conveyed the effects of defendants crime upon the victims family. Judgment of sentence affirmed.