2004 Pa. Super. 122 - Commonwealth v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
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states following
March 2006
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Kremer v. Grant · Commonwealth v. Pounds · Commonwealth v. Howard
Most-quoted passages
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“A no-adverse-inference instruction is given to protect the rights of a criminal defendant when that defendant does not testify. Accordingly, there is no testimony from the defendant for the jury to inappropriately use during deliberations. Further, our Supreme Court has recognized that the instruction may not be required in all cases. * * * * Contrary to the “no-adverse-inference” instruction, the alibi instruction was designed to guide the jury in analyzing evidence actually presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Appellee did not have any covering on his face during the robbery. Four victims identified him. One eyewitness had known Appellee her whole life and saw Appellee in the company of his accomplice ... fifteen minutes before the robbery. The evidence in this case simply was overwhelming, and if the law permitted us to properly apply the test for establishing the ineffective assistance of counsel, we would easily conclude that counsel’s action did not prejudice Appellee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the court at trial may exclude the testimony of any omitted witness, or may exclude entirely any evidence offered by the defendant for the purpose of proving the defense, except testimony by the defendant, or may grant a continuance to enable the Commonwealth to investigate such evidence, or may make such other order as the interests of justice require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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