Commonwealth v. Byrd

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing a sentence outside the guidelines where the trial court erroneously stated it had imposed an aggravated range sentence and did not provide reasons to support deviation from the guidelines
• appellant was not entitled to PCRA relief for appellate counsel’s failure to raise certain issues in a PAA because appellate counsel reviewed the record and determined that those issues were meritless
• appeal to Pennsylvania Supreme Court not matter of right but of sound judicial discretion
• appeal to Pennsylvania Supreme Court not matter of right but of sound judicial discretion
• judgment of sentence vacated where sentencing court failed to state, in defendant’s presence, permissible range of guideline sentences and did not indicate it was sentencing defendant outside of guidelines or provide reasons for deviation
• contention that court failed to give sufficient consideration to defendant’s use of his incarceration time to improve his education, his use of the Salvation Army programming, and his mastery of his anger did not raise substantial question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rodda
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-07· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Liebel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-06-09· cited 147×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia-Rivera
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-11-05· cited 92×
• Com. v. Beatty, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-02-04· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Padden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-23· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Wagner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-13· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Campion
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-29· cited 21×
• Prol v. Prol
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-18· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Ellison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-06-03· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-19· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Hennel
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-05-26

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-10· cited 739×
• Commonwealth v. Royer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-27· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Koren
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-25· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-22· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Tanner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-23· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Breter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-17· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Daniels
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Gilbert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-12· cited 5×