366 Pa. Super. 224 - Commonwealth v. Heckman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 1992
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Gravely · 315 Pa. Super. 256 - Commonwealth v. Holmes · Commonwealth v. Bonadio · 344 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Williams · Bank v. Bank
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]e find that, even if these crimes necessarily involve one another, substantially different Commonwealth interests have been injured by the appellant’s act. At stake with respect to the offense of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse is the Commonwealth’s interest in preventing people from being forced against their will to submit to sexual conduct and in preventing minors from being sexually used by adults, see Commonwealth v. Bonadio ... while ... the offense of corruption of minors involves the Commonwealth’s interest in protecting minors from corrupting influences, “the consequences of which may follow them all their days,” Commonwealth v. Sayko____ These are substantially different interests, in our view, each of which has been injured by appellant’s conduct in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the instant case ..., there were two fundamentally different Commonwealth interests involved when the defendant committed the act comprising indecent exposure in the presence of his minor victim. Not only did the defendant violate the Commonwealth’s interest in proscribing exhibitionism and in shielding any victim from such conduct, he also violated the Commonwealth’s interest in protecting minors from corrupting influences, the consequences of which may follow them all their days.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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