Commonwealth v. Failor

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 defendant’s mere silence and failure to file a motion to dismiss did not waive right to challenge double jeopardy
• stating that both Failor and Blosser appealed their DUS convictions to the Court of Common Pleas seeking a trial de novo of those charges
• “a sound tenet of jurisprudence is that courts should avoid constitutional issues when the issue at hand may be decided upon other grounds”
• “[T]he burden to protect a defendant from vexatious litigation and to conserve judicial resources rests squarely on the shoulders of the Commonwealth[.]”
• Appellant’s prosecution for driving with a suspended license was barred following his guilty plea in court for a speeding citation when all four prongs of compulsory joinder test met.
• Appellant’s prosecution for driving with a suspended license was barred following his guilty plea in court for a speeding citation when all four prongs of compulsory joinder test met.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).