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Commonwealth v. Carter

Citations

  • 485 A.2d 802
  • 336 Pa. Super. 275
  • 1984 Pa. Super. LEXIS 7017

How courts have described this case

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

  • admonishing that the responsibility of a sentencing judge to consider the character of the defendant in conjunction with the offense “is no less urgent where the defendant comes before the court as a probation violator”
  • remanding for re-sentencing where trial court dispensed with PSI report so as not to “waste the facilities of the probation department”
  • remanding for re-sentencing where trial court dispensed with PSI report so as not to \waste the facilities of the probation department\
  • vacating judgment of sentence based upon trial judge’s failure to obtain a PSI report following second Gagnon revocation hearing
  • admonishing that the responsibility of a sentencing judge to consider the character of the defendant in conjunction with the offense “is no less urgent where the defendant comes before the court as a probation violator”
  • vacating judgment of sentence based upon trial judge’s failure to obtain a PSI report following [a final probation] revocation hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Spaeth, Wieand, Cirillo

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