325 Pa. Super. 494 - Commonwealth v. Bracero’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2002
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Donnelly v. United States · Belt v. United States · Commonwealth v. Colon · 290 Pa. Super. 254 - Commonwealth v. Hutchinson
Most-quoted passages
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“MR. MESICS [counsel for appellant]: Harry Tobias, who lives at 89 Lebanon Village, will be called as a witness for Victor Bracero and he will testify as follows: That he knows a fellow by the name of Frankie Rodriquez who is also known in the community with an alias of “Spunk”; that he spoke with this fellow “Spunk” on Friday, the 20th of February, 1981. Harry was over at the Down Town Lounge socializing, and he saw “Spunk” there. “Spunk” was talking about going to Florida. “Spunk” told Harry that he would give him a hundred dollars for the ride, so he took “Spunk” with him. During this trip between Lebanon and Miami, Harry observed that “Spunk” had a lot of money with him. He saw a lot of money in his wallet, and he dropped “Spunk” off in Miami. While they were going down there, “Spunk” told Harry Tobias that he did a robbery on Tenth Street. They left for Florida on Saturday, the 21st of February, at 4:00 in the afternoon. They got there on Sunday, the 22nd of February, at 8:00 at night, and they drove down in Harry Tobias’ Alpha Romeo Grand Prix automobile. “Spunk” told Harry that while he was committing this burglary, that the lady screamed and then he left the house. The house was several stories in heighth and it was on Tenth Street in Lebanon, and that “Spunk” — he will testify that “Spunk” looks exactly like Victor Bracero. MR. FEEMAN [assistant district attorney]: I object to that. It’s not admissible. Number one, it’s irrelevant. Number two, it doesn’t exclude the D”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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