Yates v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Kotteakos v. United States · Trammel v. United States · Winstead v. Commonwealth · Springer v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“Because the Commonwealth did not prove the forcible-compulsion element, Appellant's conviction for first-degree rape cannot stand and must be reversed. This means that he may be retried for any lesser-included offenses that were included in the instructions at trial. The trial court, however, only instructed on the lesser offense of unlawful transaction with a minor, not third-degree rape. For that reason, if Appellant is retried, he cannot be convicted of third-degree rape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by other inmates once they found out he had been with a minor. At some time during the confrontation, Yates told Sally that if she would”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“with Yates. At trial, Sally testified that although she had”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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