Beck v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that victim impact testimony is not “constitutionally limited to that received from the victim’s family members”
• noting that, when applying an abuse-of-discretion standard, appellate judges do “not substitute [their] judgment for that of the trial court”
• “the determination of the admissibility of relevant evidence [in a sentencing hearing] is within the sound discretion of the trial court subject to the test of abuse of that discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).