Commonwealth v. Carmichael’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · Greenwood Trust Co. v. Gilbert · 439 Pa. Super. 227 - Commonwealth v. Urrutia · 437 Pa. Super. 521 - Commonwealth v. Lawson · 414 Pa. Super. 442 - Commonwealth v. Scullin
Most-quoted passages
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“On April 11, 1996, Carmichael and an accomplice walked into a West Philadelphia speak-easy (an unlicensed bar) in search of individuals who had been selling drugs and cutting into Carmichael's drug-dealing business. After learning that one of the persons they had been seeking had escaped out the back door of the building, Carmichael and his accomplice pulled out handguns and began firing across the room, narrowly missing two of the speak-easy's patrons and seriously wounding two others. Subsequently, Carmichael was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, VUFA [violation of the Uniform Firearms Act], conspiracy, PIC [possession of an instrument of crime], and REAP [recklessly endangering another person]. A jury found Carmichael guilty of all the charges. On April 1, 1997, the sentencing court sentenced Carmichael to serve four consecutive terms of seven to twenty years' imprisonment on each of the aggravated assault convictions; in arriving at this sentence, the court applied a deadly weapon enhancement to each aggravated assault conviction. A concurrent term of four to ten years' incarceration was also imposed on the conspiracy charges; however, no penalty was imposed for the VUFA, PIC or REAP convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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