Commonwealth v. Godsey

How courts have described this case

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

• any doubt in construing a penal statute must be resolved in favor of the accused
• § 3731(e)(2) applies prospectively; only ARD cases subsequent to the effective date of the statute — January 14, 1983 — are equivalent to a conviction for purposes of computing the penalty on subsequent convictions
• referring to sentence as mandatory
• referring to sentence as mandatory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).