Commonwealth v. Devine

How courts have described this case

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• providing that a defendant’s flight may be circumstantial evidence supporting the inference that he entered into a criminal conspiracy
• reiterating where trial court ruled on weight, appellate court may reverse if verdict so contrary to evidence to shock one’s sense of justice
• cning Comm. v. Jones, 874 A.2d 108, 120-21 (Pa. Super, 2005
• where defendant initiated gun battle on crowded street and victim was caught in cross-fire, finder of fact “could reasonably infer a causal nexus” between defendant’s conduct and decedent’s death
• “[F]light, along with other circumstantial evidence, supports the inference of a criminal conspiracy.”
• evidence was sufficient to satisfy causation where defendant initiated a gunfight on a crowded street and the victim was caught in the cross-fire, because the fact-finder could “reasonably infer a causal nexus” between defendant’s conduct and the victim’s death

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