286 Pa. Super. 232 - Commonwealth v. Fels’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Association of National Advertisers, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Commonwealth v. Mills · Commonwealth v. Melton · United States v. Moskow · Commonwealth v. Baker
Most-quoted passages
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“One is placed in double jeopardy if he has received an acquittal or its equivalent, or a sentence which is no longer subject to attack. Until such legal sentence is imposed, the jeopardy in which he was placed, when first tried, must be deemed to continue until the time of imposition of legal sentence at the subsequent trial. ‘Until a convicted prisoner receives the sentence which can withstand attack, it may be conceived that his original jeopardy continues without interruption and that he is, therefore, not put in jeopardy a second time when he receives his first valid sentence^]’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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