Commonwealth v. Dorm

How courts have described this case

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• finding this Court had jurisdiction of Commonwealth appeal from order granting new trial “in the interest of justice.”
• utilizing the “interest of justice” standard to determine whether the trial court could grant a new trial sua sponte on a recognized, but unpreserved, issue
• “[T]he confusing instructions and incorrect verdict slip left the court with an indecipherable result as to which offense Dorm was convicted of committing.” (emphasis added)
• “The last charge, [statutory involuntary deviate sexual intercourse], was the problem. Although there is no such crime, the verdict slip and the court’s charge certainly seemed to tell the jury there was indeed such a crime.”
• “[T]he failure to lodge an objection to jury instructions before the jury deliberates waives the objection.”
• “failure to lodge an objection to jury instructions before the jury deliberates waives the objection”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).