Commonwealth v. Gaerttner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that claims of ineffectiveness of a defendant’s trial counsel are waived and could not be considered under the Post Conviction Relief Act where such claims should have been raised on direct appeal by defendant’s new counsel
• [stating that] [s]entencing claims are not cognizable unless they implicate the truth- determining process or sentence legality
• providing that although counsel’s no-merit letter fell “considerably short” of the requirements to withdraw under Finley, the defendant was not prejudiced due to there being no issues of merit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Commonwealth v. McKinney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-19· cited 5×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Finley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-31· cited 4,104×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Tanner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-09-22· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-12-02· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Tunnicliff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-21· cited 3×