Commonwealth v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• where co-defendants each claimed other was driving at time of fatal collision, defenses not “mutually exclusive” and no right to severance because three people were in car, and jury could have found that neither defendant was driving
• defendant's statement \I have a lawyer.\ not an invocation of his fifth amendment right to counsel when made in response to a statement that he had a right to representation at his preliminary arraignment
• defendant's statement \I have a lawyer.\ not an invocation of his fifth amendment right to counsel when made in response to a statement that he had a right to representation at his preliminary arraignment
• no misconduct where prosecutor’s argument, though “arguably sarcastic,” was based on evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Dunphy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-06· cited 357×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1990-05-14· cited 174×
• Commonwealth v. Kunkle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-06· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Purcell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-21· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-28· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-09-22· cited 18×
• Com. v. Anderson, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-11-13· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Tenney
  Crawford County Court of Common Pleas· 1993-03-25