Family Lawyer
Practice Areas: Family, Criminal Defense ... +4 more
OUTCOME: Reverse the orders of the Superior Court which affirmed the appellants' convictions.
Police were required to obtain determination of probable cause by neutral judicial authority before sending informant to defendant's home to electronically record defendant's conversations.
OUTCOME: Case Remanded
Case remanded to PCRA court for an evidentiary hearing to determine whether there was an unjustified failure to file a direct appeal.
OUTCOME:
Intent instruction that tracked language of Uniform Firearms Act section on evidence of intent to commit crime of violence created mandatory presumption in favor of Commonwealth with respect to materia ... l element of crime of first-degree murder, in violation of defendants' due process rights.
OUTCOME: Order of the Superior Court is reversed and the judgment of sentence is reinstated.
Trial counsel's failure to request that jury be specifically instructed to consider evidence relating to defendant's knowledge of the victim's prior acts of violence and his reputation for being a viol ... ent person, in evaluating the reasonableness of defendant's belief that it was necessary to use deadly force in self-defense, did not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel.
OUTCOME: Case Remanded
Rape conviction vacated and a new trial awarded where trial counsel failed to object to the prosecutor's attempt to impeach a defense witness with a pending criminal charge.
OUTCOME:
PCRA Petition requesting a new trial on a second degree murder conviction was denied because a missing jury instruction underlying trial counsel's alleged ineffectiveness was not part of Pennsylvania's ... jurisprudence at the time of the accused's trial.
OUTCOME: Affirm the Order of the Superior Court
Imposition of increased sentence on appeal of robbery conviction, based on statute imposing mandatory minimum sentence if defendant has been convicted of prior crime of violence, did not violate double ... jeopardy, where statute expressly provides that Commonwealth has right to appellate review of sentence if trial court refuses to apply mandatory minimum sentence.
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