Commonwealth v. Birdseye

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that jury instructions following Pa. SSJI (Crim) § 12.911 had “accurately explained the law of corrupt organizations”
• noting distinction between sufficiency and weight claims and deeming - 18 - J-S84024-16 weight claim waived for failure to present separate argument
• finding waiver where identical argument was made for weight and sufficiency challenges, and appellants “neither cite[d] to the record nor do they cite to any case law to support their allegation[.]”
• differentiating between sufficiency and weight challenges, and observing that “in making a claim that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence, it is conceded that there was sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict.”
• “Because [appellants] failed to distinguish between their sufficiency and weight of the evidence claims and presented no argument regarding the weight of the evidence, we deem their weight of the evidence issue waived.”
• “Because [appellants] failed to distinguish between their sufficiency and weight of the evidence claims and presented no argument regarding the weight of the evidence, we deem their weight of the evidence issue waived.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).