Commonwealth v. Cook

How courts have described this case

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

• holding, on appeal following remand for the correction of an illegal sentence, appellant could not raise challenges to guilt phase of trial
• stating that where a discretionary sentencing claim is not preserved, it is waived and, therefore, frivolous on direct appeal, even in the Anders/Santiago context
• providing that raising waived issues on appeal would be frivolous
• confining review to counsel’s Anders brief and the appellant’s pro se filing where the appellant submits a response to the Anders brief
• reviewing pro se response only after determining that the issues raised in the Anders brief were frivolous
• forbidding appellant only from litigating claims that fell outside scope of remand after resentencing to correct illegal sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Com. v. Stroud, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-07-10· cited 25×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anders v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 87,848×
• Alleyne v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-17· cited 5,868×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-08-25· cited 1,639×
• Commonwealth v. Wrecks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-14· cited 828×
• Commonwealth v. Kalichak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-01-30· cited 352×
• Commonwealth v. Samuel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-17· cited 335×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-22· cited 317×
• Commonwealth v. McKeever
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-04-21· cited 200×
• Commonwealth v. Bennett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-09-17· cited 127×
• United States v. Henry G. Barr
  Third Circuit· 1992-06-24· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Serrano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-16· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-24· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Harper
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-11-13· cited 23×
• Com. v. Cook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-10-27· cited 2×