Commonwealth v. Ehrsam

How courts have described this case

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• upholding the constitutionality of 42 Pa.C.S. § 9712, which requires the imposition of a five-year mandatory minimum sentence to offenders who visibly display a firearm during the commission of certain felonies
• finding harmless error in the trial court’s incorrect instruction that victim had a duty to retreat as the evidence established that the victim could not have safely retreated
• mandatory minimum five year sentence for offenses committed with firearm did not violate Eighth Amendment
• warrantless entry into defendant’s home proper immediately after defendant shot her landlord

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).