Commonwealth v. Hankerson, T.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to variance
• stating an illegal sentence is one imposed without statutory authorization or in excess of the statutory maximum
• prejudice was shown where counsel’s error increased defendant’s maximum sentence from 20 to 40 years

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).