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.

• holding that the PCRA’s “after- discovered evidence” exception is satisfied where a witness submits an -9- J-S07022-15 affidavit that recants earlier trial testimony
• concluding that pro se litigant exercised due diligence in filing serial petition based upon affidavit in which a Commonwealth witness indicated he fabricated his trial testimony regarding the defendant’s confession
• finding that due diligence did not require defendant to make an unreasonable assumption that the Commonwealth had acted improperly in prosecuting his case
• finding that due diligence does not require a defendant “should have assumed the Commonwealth’s witnesses were committing perjury, and the Commonwealth was improperly permitting them to do so.”
• regarding newly-discovered facts related to the investigation into the murder for which Davis was convicted
• stating due diligence does not require defendant to make unreasonable assumptions such as assuming Commonwealth's witnesses committed perjury when stating that no deal was offered to them by the Commonwealth

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-26· cited 1,088×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Burton, S.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-03-28· cited 444×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-03-24· cited 192×
• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-25· cited 181×
• Commonwealth v. Hart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-11-21· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Shannon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-04-24· cited 41×
• Com. v. Burton, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-25
• Commonwealth v. Towles, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-08-22

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-27· cited 4,184×
• Commonwealth v. Finley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-31· cited 4,104×
• Commonwealth v. Grazier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-15· cited 1,461×
• Commonwealth v. Bennett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-23· cited 1,230×
• Commonwealth v. Carr
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-22· cited 670×
• Commonwealth v. Ragan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-31· cited 366×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-22· cited 153×
• Commonwealth v. SELENSKI
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-05-26· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-08-19· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-09-24· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 1×