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71 A.3d 250

Commonwealth v. Mendez

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 17, 2013

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 2013-07-17

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 2014

3 state decisions

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Decided 2013-07-17

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¶1ORDER

PER CURIAM.

¶2AND NOW, this 17th day of July, 2013, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue is:

In upholding a sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum explicitly set out in 75 Pa.C.S. § 3803, did not the majority violate the rules of statutory construction in order to avoid what it saw as “problematic consequences” resulting from a straightforward application of the statute?
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