Sentencing • Maximum Term • ‘Apprendi v. New Jersey’ • Serious Bodily Injury

Commonwealth v. Barnes, PICS Case No. 17-1183 (Pa. Super. July 10, 2017) Stabile, J.; Ransom and Dubow, J.J., concurring (29 pages).

The trial court erred in sentencing defendant to the maximum term of imprisonment of 40 years for attempted murder in the absence of evidence of serious bodily injury to the victim. The court vacated the judgment of sentence and remanded.