Commonwealth v. James

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring the defendant present “credible evidence of authorization” before burden shifts to the Commonwealth to prove lack thereof
• affirming judgment of sentence for PWID where “Appellant failed to introduce a prescription, testimony from a prescribing physician, or the actual pill bottle in an effort to support his claim that he was authorized to possess the pills pursuant to the burden shift described in Sojourner”
• “Because the trial court corrected the patently erroneous sentencing order, [this sentencing] issue is moot.”
• role of the fact-finder is to determine weight to be accorded witness’s testimony and to believe all, part, or none of evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Flowers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-10· cited 617×
• Commonwealth v. Wise
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-15· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Strasser
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-02-16· cited 10×
• Com. v. Flowers, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-10
• Com. v. Vializ-Rios, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-03-28

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anders v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 87,848×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-22· cited 212×
• Commonwealth v. Pruitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-23· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Sojourner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-22· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-06-21· cited 33×
• Com. v. James
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-07-29· cited 1×