Commonwealth v. Wolfe, M.’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Whether the Superior Court of Pennsylvania's sua sponte determination that the ten year mandatory minimum sentence for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse (Person less than 16 years) imposed pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9718(a)(1) is facially unconstitutional is erroneous as a matter of law? Commonwealth v. Wolfe, — Pa. —, 121 A.3d 433, 434 (2015). See also Commonwealth v. Barnes, — Pa. —, 122 A.3d 1034 (2015) (granting petition for allowance of appeal limited to two issues, including, inter alia, "Whether a challenge to a sentence pursuant to Alleyne[] implicates the legality,of the sentence and is therefore non-waivable”).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2015 Pa. Super. 275 - Com. v. Ruiz, J., Jr.