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619 Pa. 398

Commonwealth v. Fields

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 28, 2013

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 2013-03-28

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently December 2014

2 state decisions

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Decided 2013-03-28

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¶1 ORDER

PER CURIAM.

¶2AND NOW, this 28th day of March, 2013, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is:

Did the Superior Court disregard the plain language of the “second strike” mandatory sentencing provision of the repeat-violent-offender statute when it held that the provision applied to only one of the multiple crimes of violence that [respondent], a previously-convicted rapist and burglar, *399committed in a later, second criminal episode in which he again raped a woman and burglarized her home?
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