388 Pa. Super. 153 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2019
10 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 Bumper v. North Carolina · Bank of Nova Scotia v. United States · United States v. Mechanik · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · United States v. Washington
Most-quoted passages
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“When addressing a claim of prosecutorial misconduct before a grand jury, our federal courts look first to see whether the alleged misconduct took place, and next, to whether any sanction, such as dismissal of the indictment or suppression of the evidence, is warranted. When dismissal is the requested relief, the federal courts take one of two approaches. The first approach finds dismissal proper where the defendant can show that the conduct of the prosecution caused him prejudice. Prejudice will have occurred only " 'if it is established that the violation substantially influenced the grand jury's decision to indict,' or if there is 'grave doubt' that the decision to indict was free from the substantial influence of such violations." Under the second approach, dismissal may be proper where no actual prejudice is shown "if there is evidence that the challenged activity was something other than an isolated incident unmotivated by sinister ends, or that the type of misconduct challenged has become 'entrenched and flagrant' in the circuit." Under either approach, we must first determine whether any misconduct occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The test for determining the sufficiency of the evidence is whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as the verdict winner and drawing all proper inferences favorable to the Commonwealth, the [finder of fact] could reasonably have determined all elements of the crime to have been established beyond a reasonable doubt.” Commonwealth v. Williams, 388 Pa. Super. 153, 170-171 , 565 A.2d 160, 169 (1989).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if there is evidence that the challenged activity was something other than an isolated incident unmotivated by sinister ends, or that the type of misconduct challenged has become 'entrenched and flagrant' in the circuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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