421 Pa. Super. 442 - Commonwealth v. Brison’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2016
22 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Arizona v. Youngblood · Commonwealth v. Griscavage · Commonwealth v. Harper · 324 Pa. Super. 420 - Commonwealth v. Taylor
Most-quoted passages
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“Upon receipt of the test results, the trial court must ascertain whether appellant is entitled to a new trial. See Commonwealth v. Brosnick, 530 Pa. 158, 160-62 , 607 A.2d 725, 727 (1992) (discussing standard for evaluating whether after-discovered evidence warrants the award of a new trial). In deciding this question, the trial court must necessarily consider whether the test results would be admissible. See id. This determination should be performed in accordance with our decision in Commonwealth v. Rodgers, 413 Pa.Super. at 507-515 , 605 A.2d at 1233-1236 (discussing the admissibility of DNA test results.) The judgment of sentence should be reinstated in the event that a new trial is not required. Based on the record currently before us, we do not know whether the specimens taken from the victim are still available for testing. Our holding is thus contingent upon the continued existence of these materials. If the samples have not been preserved by the Commonwealth and there is no hint of bad faith in failing to preserve the evidence, the judgment of sentence must be reinstated. See, e.g., Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. [51] at 58, 109 S.Ct. [333] at 337, 102 L.Ed.2d [281] at 289 (1988) (holding that absent bad faith on the part of the police, the failure to preserve potentially useful evidence does not constitute a denial of due process of law)....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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