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626 Pa. 362

97 A.3d 310

Commonwealth v. Wallace

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 21, 2014

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 2014-07-21

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2025

12 state decisions

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Decided 2014-07-21

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Justice SAYLOR,

¶1concurring.

¶2I join the majority opinion, as I believe that its constitutional assessment is correct as applied in the present circumstances and, at least as a general proposition, some restraints on inmates’ ability to petition for expungement during their terms of incarceration will assist in cabining the impact of prisoner litigation on limited judicial and public resources. Since, however, we have a very particularized and egregious set of circumstances before us, my approach would be to couch the restraint in terms of a general rule, thus allowing for the possibility for further evaluation in cases presenting exceptional circumstances.

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