2002 Pa. Super. 315 - Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “[T]he scope of evidence which a trial court may consider in determining whether to grant a pretrial writ of habe-as corpus is not limited to the evidence as presented at the preliminary hearing. On the contrary, ... the Commonwealth may present additional evidence at the habeas corpus stage in its effort to establish at least prima facie that a crime has been committed and that the accused is the person who committed it. ... In the pretrial setting, the focus of the habeas corpus hearing is to determine whether sufficient Commonwealth evidence exists to require a defendant to be held in government “custody” until he may be brought to trial. To make this determination, the trial court should accept into evidence the record from the preliminary hearing as well as any additional evidence which the Commonwealth may have available to further provide its prima facie case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2003 Pa. Super. 178 - Commonwealth v. Keller