Commonwealth v. Eicher

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that convicted drug dealers are not a member of a suspect or sensitive class and therefore “only a minimum level of scrutiny need be applied to determine whether the statute bears a rational relationship to a legitimate legislative objective.”
• holding the mandatory minimum sentencing provisions under 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 7508 do not violate the equal protection clause
• stating that “[t]he crime of possession with the intent to deliver … has been recognized to be a lesser included offense of the crime of delivery of a controlled substance”
• finding Act which provided for several amendments to the Crimes Code did not impermissibly contain more than one subject where the language gave sufficient notice of the contents of the bill
• defendant’s warrantless arrest was lawful where police officers who effectuated arrest were informed by another officer of his criminal -7- J-S81042-18 conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).