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Commonwealth v. Fowler

Citations

  • 893 A.2d 758
  • 2006 Pa. Super. 30
  • 2006 Pa. Super. LEXIS 88

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding requirement for reasoning satisfied where court imposed sentence in the standard range and court stated it read the PSI, listened to the facts presented for sentencing, and the appellant’s guilty plea
  • affirming denial of PCRA relief where appellant pled that his guilty plea was involuntary and unknowing because it was improperly induced by counsel’s promise and assurance that he would not receive the statutory maximum
  • “an allegation that the court failed to state adequate reasons on the record for the sentence imposed presents a substantial question”
  • “the standard range . . . is presumptively where a defendant should be sentenced”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Klein, Bowes and Gantman

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