Commonwealth v. Cargo

How courts have described this case

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

• submission of statement of matters complained of on appeal is not sufficient to preserve claim of error for appellate review
• “ineffectiveness of prior counsel must be raised at the earliest stage in the proceedings at which counsel whose ineffectiveness is being challenged no longer represents the appllants”
• brief raising allegations of error, in absence of written post-verdict motions, preserves no issue for appellate review
• issue waived where not raised in post-verdict motions; inclusion of issue in brief submitted in support of post-verdict motions is not a permissible substitute for raising the issue by post-verdict motion
• issue waived where not raised in post-verdict motions; inclusion of issue in brief submitted in support of post-verdict motions is not a permissible substitute for raising the issue by post-verdict motion
• sixteen-year-old witness to murder ordered to appear ahead of trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).