Commonwealth v. Begley

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that hearsay is an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted in the statement
• holding sentencing court permissibly relied on defendant’s lack of cooperation, to sentence outside of Sentencing Guidelines
• holding the appellant was not entitled to relief on ineffectiveness claim related to counsel’s failure to impeach witnesses on minor inconsistencies
• rejecting claim due to absence of affidavit stating witness would have been available to testify at trial
• rejecting claim due to absence of affidavit stating witness would have been available to testify at trial
• applying Jackson v. Virginia standard to circumstantial evidence used to convict defendant of first-degree murder and kidnapping and to sustain his death sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).