509 Pa. 621 - Commonwealth v. McSorley

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Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016

20 state decisions

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¶1 *622 Thomas E. Waters, Dist. Atty., Ronald T. Williamson, Chief/Appeals Div., J. William Ditter, III, Asst. Dist. Atty., Bart C. Tuttle, for appellant.

¶2Eric J. Cox, Robert J. Vagnoni, Norristown, for appellee.

¶3Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

¶4

ORDER

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6The order of the Superior Court is affirmed.^[1]

¶7HUTCHINSON, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which LARSEN and McDERMOTT, JJ., joined.

¶8HUTCHINSON, Justice, dissenting.

¶9I dissent. I would reverse the order of Superior Court and remand to Common Pleas for further proceedings against appellee, on the dissenting opinion of Judge Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., Commonwealth v. McSorley,335 Pa. Superior Ct. 522, 533-36, 485 A.2d 15, 21-23 (1984) (McEwen, J., dissenting).

¶10LARSEN and McDERMOTT, JJ., join this dissenting opinion.

NOTES

¶11[1] The order of this Court is not to be interpreted as adopting the reasoning of the Superior Court Opinion Announcing the Judgment of the Court insofar as it relates to the prohibition against double jeopardy.