Commonwealth v. Alston

How courts have described this case

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

• “A challenge to the legality of sentence is a question of law; our standard of review is de novo and our scope of review is plenary.”
• registration requirements implicate legality of sentence, to which this Court applies de novo standard of review
• “A challenge to the legality of sentence is a question of law; our standard of review is de novo and our scope of review is plenary.”
• “[W]here [a]ppellant’s offenses straddle the operative dates for Subchapters H and I[,]” he is entitled to the lower punishment found in Subsection I if there is not a “specific finding by the chosen factfinder of when the offenses occurred.”
• “[W]hen an appellant’s offenses straddle the effective dates of Subchapters H and I of SORNA, he is entitled to the lower reporting requirements of Subchapter I, absent a specific finding of when the offenses related to the convictions actually occurred”
• remanding for new notification of registration requirements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. Chichkin, I.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-05-20· cited 107×
• Com. v. Richards, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-10-04· cited 63×
• Com. v. Knupp, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-22· cited 27×
• Com. v. Zack, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-08-17· cited 7×
• Com. v. Hayes, G.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-12-02· cited 7×
• Com. v. Zeno, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-05-07· cited 5×
• Com. v. Elliott, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-05· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Alston, J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-06-26
• Com. v. Moroz, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-10-04

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Alleyne v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-17· cited 5,868×
• Commonwealth v. Muniz, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-19· cited 899×
• Commonwealth v. Treiber, S., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-17· cited 629×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-10-31· cited 372×
• Commonwealth v. Cardwell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-25· cited 153×
• Pennsylvania v. Muniz
  Supreme Court· 2018-01-22· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Weimer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-07· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-07· cited 38×