Commonwealth v. Best

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that failure of trial court to “specifically advise” defendant that he or she is presumed innocent does not render plea colloquy defective
• stating failure of trial court to “specifically advise” defendant he or she is presumed innocent does not render plea colloquy defective where colloquy otherwise conveyed both Commonwealth’s burden of proof and necessity of unanimous jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Leonhart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-17· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Earl
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-01-23· cited 4×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-17· cited 174×
• Commonwealth v. Starr
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 171×
• Commonwealth v. Willis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Anthony
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-24· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Herberg
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-05· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Anthony
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-13· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Siebert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-08· cited 10×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-29· cited 4×