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  • Commonwealth v. Jennings

    Publication Date: 2024-02-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 2382 EDA 2022

    Trial court erred in modifying probation to add special conditions when it did not make any findings that defendant violated the existing conditions of probation or otherwise posed an identifiable threat to public safety. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • United States v. Monaco

    Publication Date: 2024-02-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Chung
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    Case Number: 22-2895

    Defendant appealed his conviction for healthcare fraud and wire fraud, challenging the denial of his motion to admit various statements made by a witness who was not called by the government, and the district court's calculation of attributable loss and application of sentencing enhancements.

  • United States v. Long

    Publication Date: 2024-02-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Roth
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    Case Number: 23-1215

    Defendant appealed the judgment of sentence imposed following his guilty plea to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.

  • United States v. Hall

    Publication Date: 2024-02-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Bibas
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    Case Number: 23-1430

    Defendant appealed the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to possessing ammunition after being convicted of a felony.

  • United States v. Lingala

    Publication Date: 2024-02-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Justice Hardiman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan M. Petty and Stephen Turano
    for defendant: Sabrina G. Comizzoli and Mark E. Coyne (Office of United States Attorney)
    Case Number: 22-2060

    Federal Jurisdiction over Murder-for-Hire and Witness Tampering Charges Established When Defendant Called/Email Purported Hitman and Traveled Interstate to Meet Him

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  • Commonwealth v. Merced

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 231 MDA 2023

    Trial court violated defendant's ex post facto rights by sentencing him under a criminal statute that became effective after defendant's criminal conduct. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 987 WDA 2022

    Court remanded dismissal of Post Conviction Relief Act petition where defendant supplemented with claims of ineffective assistance of PCRA counsel and PCRA court failed to adequately explain the reasons for dismissing the petition. Order of the PCRA court vacated, case remanded.

  • United States v. Ruffin

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
    Judge: District Judge Hornak
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    Case Number: 2:13-cr-00138

    Court concluded that only one of defendant's underlying convictions, his federal carjacking conviction, was a "crime of violence" for Armed Career Criminal Act purposes and ordered a resentencing hearing. Motion granted.

  • Commonwealth v. Strouse

    Publication Date: 2024-02-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 2470 EDA 2022

    Trial court did not abuse discretion in imposing probation condition for defendant to surrender to their outstanding warrants despite defendant being under active probation supervision that prevented his travel to other jurisdictions, where defendant had failed to show good faith efforts to modify his probation to obtain approval to travel. Judgment of sentence affirmed in part and vacated in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Saylor

    Publication Date: 2024-02-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 175 MDA 2023

    Ineffective assistance of counsel claims relating to denial of proposed self-defense instructions failed where there was insufficient evidence of defendant's state of mind to support such an instruction. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.