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  • Commonwealth v. Napold

    Publication Date: 2017-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 17-1536

    Failure to object to introduction of evidence of blood draw refusal rendered issue waived for appeal even where new rule of law concerning blood draw refusals was promulgated following trial and during pendency of appeal. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Bennett

    Publication Date: 2017-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Steinberg
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    Case Number: 17-1423

    The court denied a criminal defendants motion to dismiss where the offenses involved in the instant case were not logically or temporally part of the same criminal episode.

  • Anderson v. Talaber

    Publication Date: 2017-10-10
    Practice Area: Attorney Rates and Arrangements | Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 17-1532

    Given the U.S. Supreme Courts recent decision in Pittman v. Pa. Bd. of Probation and Parole, the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole erred in determining that it lacked discretion to award petitioner credit for time spent at liberty on parole.

  • Commonwealth v. Melvin

    Publication Date: 2017-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 17-1530

    Pursuant to Pennsylvania precedent following the U.S. Supreme Courts 2012 decision in Miller v Alabama, the court rejected defendants claim that his sentence to 30-years-to-life for a homicide committed while he was a juvenile was illegal.