393 Pa. Super. 500 - Commonwealth v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
March 2000
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Stanley · Commonwealth v. Wojdak · Commonwealth v. Hetherington · Commonwealth v. Revtai · Commonwealth v. Cartagena
Most-quoted passages
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“(b) Defiant trespasser.— (1) A person commits an offense if, knowing that he is not licensed or privileged to do so, he enters or remains in any place as to which notice against trespass is given by: (i) actual communication to the actor; or (ii) posting in a manner prescribed by law or reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders; or (iii) fencing or other enclosure manifestly designed to exclude intruders. (2) An offense under this subsection constitutes a misdemeanor of the third degree if the offender defies an order to leave personally communicated to him by the owner of the premises or other authorized person. Otherwise it is a summary offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) specific forgery provisions of the Pharmacy Act and general forgery provisions of the Crimes Code, (2) specific forgery and unlawful voting provisions of the Election Code and general perjury and unsworn falsification provisions of the Crimes Code, (3) specific false statement provisions of the Unemployment Compensation Law and general false pretense provisions of the Penal Code, and (4) specific false pretense provisions of the Nonprofit Medical and Dental Service Corporation Act of 1939 and general false pretense provisions of the Penal Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even if we consider defiant trespass to be a “special provision” and criminal trespass to be a “general provision,” because the criminal trespass subsection of 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 3503(a) has the element of entry by subterfuge, by surreptitious remaining or by breaking, which is absent from 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 3503(b), the Commonwealth may prosecute under either or both provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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