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Publication Date: 2022-10-03
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Kunselman
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Case Number: 426 MDA 2022
Files from cell phone's "notes" application fell within scope of search warrant seeking messages related to the nature of the relationship between defendant and the victim, where warrant could be interpreted as not limiting the scope to sent messages but instead including draft messages that could be contained in a note. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-09-26
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 1427 EDA 2021
Trial court properly admitted social media posts where commonwealth authenticated the accounts as belonging to defendant through circumstantial evidence such as the accounts bearing defendant's nicknames and posts on both accounts that included photos and video depicting defendant. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-09-26
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 1165 EDA 2021
Court upheld finding of indirect criminal contempt where defendant intentionally posted video on the internet mentioning the existence and nature of a grand jury investigation in violation of the trial court's express instructions not to do so. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-09-26
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 2044 EDA 2021
PCRA petition dismissed where defendant did not have meritorious challenge to sufficiency of evidence supporting his endangering the welfare of a child conviction as defendant was driving a vehicle in which he had minor passengers and therefore owed a duty of care to carefully operate the vehicle to ensure the children's safety. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-09-19
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Krause
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Case Number: 19-2717
Appellant appealed his resentencing under the First Step Act and court found district court erred in finding it did not have the discretion to consider appellant's arguments concerning intervening changes in law affecting his career-offender status and in denying appellant the opportunity to file a memorandum and supplemental documentation to support his arguments. Vacated and remanded.
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Publication Date: 2022-09-19
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Fuentes
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Case Number: 21-1219
District court properly sentenced appellant on her convictions for attempted enticement of a minor and travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor because district court did not violate appellant's due process rights by basing her sentence on inaccurate information and did not err in considering prison wages in determining whether appellant was indigent for the purposes of an assessment under the victims of trafficking act. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-09-19
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Delaware County
Judge: Judge Green
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Case Number: 7434-2018
The court denied a criminal defendant's request for appeal finding that his request for a mistrial was appropriately denied because although a jury member was aware that one of the witnesses worked in a nursing facility, they did not know any other identifying information. The court further denied the request for a mistrial on several grounds, finding that the trial court properly delivered jury instructions and exercised sound judgment during sentencing.
Publication Date: 2022-09-05
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Fox
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Case Number: 22-0897
Petitioner was not entitled to the attorney general's intervention in the underlying criminal matter under the Commonwealth Attorneys Act since she failed to follow the procedures set forth in that Act and also filed her request prematurely, before substantiating a conflict of interest claim. The court recommended affirmance.
Publication Date: 2022-09-05
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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Case Number: 22-1004
District court properly denied defendant's habeas corpus petition because, under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, defendant could not develop facts to support his new merits claim in federal court and, on the state record, his trial counsel was not ineffective for arguing an alibi defense instead of self-defense. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2022-08-29
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Dubow
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Case Number: 22-0963
A jury could reasonably infer that defendant was aware that the practical certainty of his breaking the victim's phone while he was assaulting her would prevent her from contacting to police; thus, the evidence was sufficient to support a finding that defendant had the mens rea to commit the crime of intimidation. The appellate court affirmed.
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