780 A.2d 605
Decided September 12, 2001
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 2001-09-12
Relies on Commonwealth v. Belsar
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Decided 2001-09-12
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Carson (2006), Commonwealth v. Rios (2007)
56 state decisions
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¶1ORDER
¶2AND NOW, this 12th day of September, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is granted, limited as follows:
¶3Whether merger was precluded for the purpose of avoiding a “volume discount” for multiple criminal acts under this Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Belsar, 544 Pa. 346, 676 A.2d 632 (1996).