341 Pa. Super. 506 - Commonwealth v. Sypin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Darush · 265 Pa. Super. 305 - Commonwealth v. Wicks · Commonwealth v. Bethea · 275 Pa. Super. 373 - Commonwealth v. Doyle · 271 Pa. Super. 434 - Commonwealth v. Farrar
Most-quoted passages
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“These statements require that the judgment of sentence be vacated and the case remanded for resentencing. Appellant was not charged in connection with the disappearance or death of any child. See Commonwealth v. Be-thea, 474 Pa. 571 , 379 A.2d 102 (1977) (sentence invalid if it appears that sentencing court may have relied on an impermissible consideration). Commonwealth v. Stuf-flet, 322 Pa.Super. 176 , 469 A.2d 240 (1983) (improper reference to rape at sentencing when defendant not charged with rape); Commonwealth v. Karash, 306 Pa. Super. 229 , 452 A.2d 528 (1982) (in sentencing defendant for burglary, court should not have referred to escape for which defendant had not been charged); Commonwealth v. Cruz, 265 Pa.Super. 474 , 402 A.2d 536 (1979) (error for sentencing court to rely on unsubstantiated hearsay that defendant dealt in large quantities of drugs).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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