Commonwealth v. Harris

How courts have described this case

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

• in order to appoint special prosecutor in PCHA proceedings, the defendant must show an actual impropriety, which taints the proceedings
• no conflict of interest where Chief Public Defender, who did not represent defendant at trial, became DA at the time that defendant filed post-conviction relief petition
• no conflict of interest where the Chief Public Defender, who did not represent defendant at trial, became DA at the time that defendant filed post-conviction relief petition
• no conflict of interest existed where district attorney put all possible measures in place to separate himself from cases he was involved with when he was a public defender
• no conflict of interest existed where district attorney put all possible measures in place to separate himself from cases he was involved with when he was a public defender

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Pennington
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1993-03-16· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Boring
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-23· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Breakiron
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-09· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Sims
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-21· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-14· cited 14×
• Com. v. Snyder, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-20· cited 8×
• Euell v. Rosemeyer
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1993-12-09· cited 2×
• State of New Hampshire v. Michael Addison (Motion to Disqualify Attorney General's Office)
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-03-07· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson, A., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-14· cited 1×
• In Re: Special Prosecutor, Thirty-Fifth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-26
• United States v. Samirkumar Shah
  Third Circuit· 2022-08-03

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pisa v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-09· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-10· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Lowery
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-25· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-12· cited 5×