Commonwealth v. Catanch

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a trial court was \free to impose a more lengthy term of imprisonment [than the mandatory minimum sentence] upon consideration of the individual circumstances of the case before it\
• “we note that a plea of nolo contendere is treated the same as a guilty plea in terms of its effect upon a particular case.”
• requirement of contemporaneous written statement explaining any deviation from the sentencing guidelines is satisfied when a sentencing judge states the reasons for his actions on the record and in defendant’s presence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).