Commonwealth v. Baird

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “the district attorney decides whether to file a praecipe for a hearing whereby the court will determine if an offender meets the SVP criteria….”
• vacating judgment of sentence based on trial court’s failure to conduct SVP hearing prior to sentencing
• discussing former version of 42 Pa.C.S. § 9795.4(e)(3) and holding “the procedure of reaching a determination of whether one is an 7 Issues regarding legality of sentence may be raised by this Court sua sponte. See Commonwealth v. Watley, 81 A.3d 108, 118 (Pa. Super. 2013

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Moreno
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-04· cited 169×
• Gaudio v. Ford Motor Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-06-01· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Seiders
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-10-25· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Merolla
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-28· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Whanger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-20· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Ruffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-25· cited 14×
• Gordon v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-12-30· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Graeff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-24· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-04-26· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Wisor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-06-28· cited 3×
• Com. v. Torres, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-11-19
• Com. v. Flanders, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-27

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. MacKert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-27· cited 21×