Commonwealth v. Brown

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• holding an internet site such as MapQuestTM, which purports to establish distances between two locations, is not so reliable that its “accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.”
• holding a judicially noticed fact is one not subject to reasonable dispute in that it is capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned
• finding no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s refusal to take judicial notice of the distance between two points as stated on the mapquest - 14 - J-S65023-15 website
• “An internet site determining distances does not have the same inherent accuracy as do professionally accepted medical dictionaries, or encyclopedias, or other matters of common knowledge within the community.”
• criminal proceeding in which judicial notice of MapQuest was taken in order to determine whether to invoke a mandatory sentencing provision of the Crimes Code, 18 Pa. C.S. §§ 101-9546

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-04-11· cited 39×
• Kinley v. Bierly
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-04· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Britton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-03-10· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Dunlap
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-24· cited 14×
• Com. v. Kearney, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-12-23· cited 12×
• Berman v. Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-06-27· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Lungin
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-09-15
• Commonwealth v. Shuman
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2007-03-13