Commonwealth v. Andrews

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Andrews was entitled to hearing on his claim that counsel should have advised him to plead guilty but mentally ill
• stating that “[u]nder Pennsylvania law, mental illness is not a defense to criminal liability unless the mental illness rises to the level of legal insanity.”
• stating, “[a] plea of guilty constitutes a waiver of all nonjurisdictional defects and defenses and waives the right to challenge anything but the legality of [the] sentence and the validity of [the] plea.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• prejudice, “to the effect that there was a reasonable probability of a different outcome if not for counsel’s error,” is a required element to find ineffective assistance of counsel
• “‘A plea of guilty constitutes a waiver of all nonjurisdictional defects and defenses’ and ‘waives the right to challenge anything but the legality of [the] sentence and the validity of [the] plea.’”
• “A plea of guilty constitutes a waiver of all non[-]jurisdictional defects and defenses” and “waives the right to challenge anything but the legality of [the] sentence and the validity of [the] plea.” (quotation and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grove
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-31· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Singleton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-17· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Ligon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-11· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Root
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-06· cited 32×
• Com. v. Pastories, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-27

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
• Commonwealth v. Travaglia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-23· cited 541×
• Commonwealth v. Natividad
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-27· cited 251×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-26· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-03-28· cited 174×
• Homrich v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-20· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Payne
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-03-13· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Trill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-12· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Andre
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-29· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Townsend
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-02-08· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Hatfield
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-04· cited 7×