Commonwealth v. G.D.M.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing a substantial question exists where appellant claimed a manifestly excessive sentence resulted from the imposition of consecutive sentences
• recognizing preschool and early elementary school age victims are not expected to remember exact dates, as they do not have lives revolving around the calendar; to require such detail from them “would be to give child predators free rein.”
• finding sufficient evidence where victim testified abuse began contemporaneously with his start of kindergarten and ended when defendant was arrested
• referring to seven-month period during which abus e occurred as an “extended period of time” and explainin g that elementary school children are not expected to remember exact dates as their lives “do not revolve around the calendar”
• “Case law has established that the Commonwealth must be afforded broad latitude when attempting to fix the date of offenses which involve a continuous course of conduct.”
• “Case law has established that the Commonwealth must be afforded broad latitude when attempting to fix the date of offenses which involve a continuous course of conduct.”

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