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362 Pa. Super. 138

Commonwealth v. Jenkins

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 1, 1987

Superior Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1987-04-01

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1989

3 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1987-04-01

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MONTEMURO, Judge,

¶1concurring and dissenting:

¶2While I agree with the majority’s ultimate disposition of this case, I do not believe the PCHA (Post Conviction Hearing Act) to be applicable to summary convictions. The same principle which specifically excludes such convictions from the prior record score computations used in sentencing seems to me to dictate this result. I do not suggest that the legal consequences of these convictions are illusory or negligible, but every human action, at least theoretically, produces some repercussions, and I feel that the direct appeal process is sufficient to address these.

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