Commonwealth v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the appellate -9- J-S41002-20 courts of the Commonwealth consistently have ruled that a defendant’s lack of knowledge of collateral consequences to the entry of a guilty plea does not render a plea unknowing or involuntary
• holding that the possibility of probation revocation in an unrelated case is a collateral consequence to a guilty plea and the fact that a defendant was not informed of such a possibility does not undermine the validity of his guilty plea
• holding the possibility of a probation revocation is a collateral consequence which is not invalidated by a defendant’s lack of knowledge
• effect of guilty plea on unrelated criminal sentence of probation is a collateral consequence of plea of which the court need not inform the defendant
• “[T]he possibility of probation revocation is a collateral consequence to a guilty plea, and the fact that a defendant was not informed that he faces such a possibility in an unrelated criminal case does not undermine the validity of the plea.”

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Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Barndt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-25· cited 598×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-03-02· cited 84×
• Myers v. Straub
  E.D. Michigan· 2001-06-28· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Oliver
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-14· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Leidig
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-05-14· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Stark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-06· cited 18×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2017-05-08· cited 2×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Persinger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-10· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Duffey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-08· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Frometa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-06· cited 85×
• Thomas G. Parry Bh-2648 v. Frederick Rosemeyer
  Third Circuit· 1995-08-21· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-23· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Fay
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-14· cited 14×
• Commonwealth Department of Transportation v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-05-06· cited 9×