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← 687 SW2D 135 - Penn v. Commonwealth

Penn v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1999
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Trowel v. Commonwealth

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “in a pending proceeding so much as it is whether the person offered the bribe . . . may be called as a witness in any official proceeding . . . . The current statute's specific use of the word”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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