Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1/23/1997
Commonwealth v. Boyd
Citations
- 688 A.2d 1172
- 547 Pa. 111
- 1997 Pa. LEXIS 234
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- failure to properly explain the advantages and disadvantages of accepting or rejecting a plea offer may be ineffective assistance of counsel
- “Appellant filed his PCRA petition before the 1995 amendments to the Act became effective in January of 1996. Therefore, [the preamendment PCRA] applies to this case.”
- t he constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel “may be violated by a failure to properly explain the advantages and disadvantages of accepting or rejecting a plea offer”
- failure to properly explain the advantages and disadvantages of accepting or rejecting a plea offer may be ineffective assistance of counsel
- failure to properly explain the advantages and disadvantages of accepting or rejecting a plea offer may be ineffective assistance of counsel
- applying Korb in a pre-1995 amendment case
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Judges: Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman, Nix, Former
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10 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. LantzySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-07· cited 472×
- Commonwealth v. TedfordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-19· cited 325×
- People v. CurryIllinois Supreme Court· 1997-09-18· cited 197×
- Commonwealth v. MarkowitzSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-29· cited 111×
- Commonwealth Ex. Rel. James Dadario v. GoldbergSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-06-19· cited 94×
- Commonwealth v. LewisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-03-02· cited 84×
- Commonwealth v. MaharMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-06-07· cited 58×
- Commonwealth v. LantzySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-13· cited 33×
- Commonwealth v. MarinezSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-16· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. HerroldSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-07· cited 1×
Cites
12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Hill v. LockhartSupreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
- James Howard Turner v. State of TennesseeSixth Circuit· 1988-10-07· cited 194×
- United States ex rel. Caruso v. ZelinskyThird Circuit· 1982-09-22· cited 103×
- Glimmert Beckham v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of CorrectionsFifth Circuit· 1981-03-12· cited 100×
- Commonwealth v. BuehlSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-16· cited 80×
- Brown-Forman Corp. v. Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage CommissionSupreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 70×
- Commonwealth v. CopelandSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-21· cited 68×
- Commonwealth v. NapperSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 58×
- Tennessee v. TurnerSupreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 47×
- Commonwealth v. FowlerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-04-02· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. WhiteSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-20· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. KorbSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-14· cited 13×
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