Commonwealth v. Correa

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the crime of possession of a controlled substances is not crimen falsi even though statute requires “knowing” or “intentional” possession
• holding that prima facie case of discrimination was established where prosecutor used five of her six peremptory challenges to exclude black venirepersons
• permissible to challenge based on fact that the venirepersons’s son had been arrested
• evidence of arrest, conviction, and active bench warrant admissible to demonstrate a witness’s motive to avoid the police
• arrest and conviction for possession of a controlled substance was not evidence of crimen falsi to impeach the appellant’s character witness, but it was admissible to show witness’ bias against police and that a bench warrant had been issued for his arrest
• Powers decision eliminated two requirements of prima facie showing previously required of defendant under Batson: defendant no longer need establish that he or she is a member of a cognizable racial group, nor a member of the same group as that excluded through use of peremptory challenges

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-22· cited 233×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-23· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-18· cited 14×
• People v. Gaston
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-12-13· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Garrett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-23· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-09· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Iannelli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-18· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Rico
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-21· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Wheeler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-28· cited 7×
• Cooper v. Franko
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1996-01-29
• Craddock v. Viechnicki
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2006-02-03
• B.M. Sutton v. PSP
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-10-30