2000 Pa. Super. 114 - Commonwealth v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2012
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Sullivan · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Anthony · Commonwealth v. Hardcastle · Commonwealth v. Davenport · Commonwealth v. Libonati
Most-quoted passages
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“The facts and circumstances established by the Commonwealth need not be absolutely incompatible with the defendant's innocence, but the question of any doubt is for the trier of fact unless the evidence is so weak and inconclusive that, as a matter of law, no probability of fact can be drawn from the combined circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 303. Causal relationship between conduct and result (b) Divergence between result designed or contemplated and actual result. — When intentionally or knowingly causing a particular result is an element of an offense, the element is not established if the actual result is not within the intent or the contemplation of the actor unless: (1) the actual result differs from that designed or contemplated as the case may be, only in the respect that a different person or different property is injured or affected or that the injury or harm designed or contemplated would have been more serious or more extensive than that caused; or (2) the actual result involves the same kind of injury or harm as that designed or contemplated and is not too remote or accidental in its occurrence to have a bearing on the actor’s liability or on the gravity of his offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In reviewing the denial of a motion to suppress, our responsibility is to determine whether the record supports the suppression court’s factual findings and the legitimacy of the inferences and legal conclusions drawn from those findings. If the suppression court held for the prosecution, we consider only the evidence of the prosecution’s witnesses and so much of the evidence for the defense as, fairly read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontra-dicted. When the factual findings of the suppression court are supported by the evidence, the appellate court may reverse if there is an error in the legal conclusions drawn from those factual findings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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