Commonwealth v. Jackson

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• concluding that when a defendant appropriately and coherently participates in an oral plea colloquy, his plea will be considered to be knowing, voluntary, and intelligent, even if the petitioner is under the influence of a substance at the time
• holding that although defendant was under the influence of medication at the time of his nolo contendere plea, he was not permitted to -9- J-S23031-16 withdraw his plea where he responded to all plea colloquy questions appropriately and thus demonstrated his understanding of the proceedings
• holding the defendant was not entitled to withdraw his plea of nolo contendere on grounds he was taking medication where the court discussed prescription drugs with the defendant at time he entered the plea and the defendant showed no signs he did not understand the questions
• holding a defendant's use of prescription medication at the time he entered a plea of nolo contendere did not entitle him to withdraw his plea as there was no indication he was unable to understand the questions put to him during the proceedings
• nolo contendere - 16 - J-S10044-21 plea entered while on prescription drugs valid where defendant failed to indicate he did not understand his rights during his plea and he responded appropriately to all colloquy questions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Willis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-06-12· cited 156×
• Commonwealth v. Iseley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-22· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-30· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Turiano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-13· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Knight
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-15· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Kasecky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-12· cited 4×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Pettus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-05· cited 291×
• Commonwealth v. Durst
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-30· cited 206×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-17· cited 174×
• Commonwealth v. McNeil
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-08· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Schultz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-13· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-08· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Vance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-01· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. McLaughlin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Glaze
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-21· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Leonhart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-17· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Hazen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-17· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-08· cited 9×