Commonwealth v. Griffin

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “newspaper articles do not meet the definition of ‘evidence’ because they are merely the reporter’s version of facts and are not admissible at trial.”
• explaining that, allegations or accusations contained in a criminal indictment, or criminal charges, are not evidence
• stating that a federal civil rights complaint is a pleading asserting allegations or accusations and does not meet the definition of admissible, relevant evidence
• explaining that, allegations or accusations contained in a criminal indictment, or criminal charges, are not evidence
• finding that “allegations about an unrelated person in an unrelated case” did not constitute after-discovered evidence
• stating that, even if the allegations contained in an indictment or criminal complaint were “evidence,” a petitioner would still not satisfy the after-discovered evidence test because the alleged evidence would be used solely for impeachment purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-13· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-06-14· cited 53×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Widmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 1,854×
• Commonwealth v. Chamberlain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-14· cited 270×
• Commonwealth v. Padillas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-06-11· cited 248×
• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-24· cited 224×
• Commonwealth v. Castro
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-16· cited 184×
• Commonwealth v. Delbridge
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-21· cited 49×
• Discover Bank v. Stucka
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-14· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Smihal
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-11-13· cited 15×